![]() ![]() On page and screen Tadzio is a distant, mute figure playing with his siblings, and returning the lascivious gaze of Aschenbach. Andrésen, with virtually no acting experience and little ambition to develop any, clearly had something. ![]() ![]() Visconti finally found 15-year-old Björn Andrésen in Stockholm.Īlain Delon said that if Visconti recruited you for a role, it was because he knew what he would be getting, even if you didn’t. It was a search that had eluded the other major directors who had attempted to bring the book to the screen: John Huston, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli. For years the director trawled the Continent in pursuit of the right actor for the part. Less is known of the teenager who played the role in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film of Mann’s novel. He was a Polish boy the writer ogled from a distance in 1911 while holidaying with his wife at the Grand Hotel des Bains in Venice. The inspiration for the object of Aschenbach’s infatuation in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice was acknowledged by the author some years after publication, and the subject of a biography a century later ( The Real Tadzio by Gilbert Adair). ![]()
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