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The Leopard

Year:

1963

Duration:

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

8.1

Director:

Luchino Visconti

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 10 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: Italy

Release Date: 1963-07-15

Filming Locations: Ariccia, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Earnings

Opening Weekend: £39,102 (UK) (4 May 2003)

Gross: £112,329 (UK) (11 May 2003)

Cast

Actor

Character

Giuliano Gemma

The Leopard

Burt Lancaster

Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

Claudia Cardinale

Angelica Sedara

Alain Delon

Tancredi Falconeri

Paolo Stoppa

Don Calogero Sedara

Rina Morelli

Princess Maria Stella Salina

Romolo Valli

Father Pirrone

Terence Hill

Count Cavriaghi

Pierre Clémenti

Francesco Paolo

Lucilla Morlacchi

Concetta

Ida Galli

Carolina

Ottavia Piccolo

Caterina

Carlo Valenzano

Paolo

Brook Fuller

Little Prince

Anna Maria Bottini

Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess

Lola Braccini

Donna Margherita

Marino Masé

Tutor

Howard Nelson Rubien

Don Diego

Tina Lattanzi

Marcella Rovena

Rina De Liguoro

Princess of Presicce

Valerio Ruggeri

Giovanni Melisenda

Don Onofrio Rotolo

Giancarlo Lolli

(as Carlo Lolli)

Franco Gulà

Vittorio Duse

Vanni Materassi

Giuseppe Stagnitti

Carmelo Artale

Olimpia Cavalli

Mariannina

Anna Maria Surdo

Halina Zalewska

(as Alina Zalewska)

Winni Riva

Stelvio Rosi

Carlo Palmucci

Dante Posani

Rosolino Bua

Ivo Garrani

Colonel Pallavicino

Leslie French

Cavalier Chevally

Serge Reggiani

Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo

Marie Bell

(uncredited)

Lou Castel

Party guest (uncredited)

Sandra Christolini

Youngest Daughter

Maurizio Merli

(uncredited)

Augusto Pescarini

(uncredited)

Paola Piscini

(uncredited)

Amalia Troiani

(uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film was shot over 11 of the hottest weeks of the year. Toward the end of the schedule, Burt Lancaster took time out to pick up his Best Actor's prize for Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) at the Venice Film Festival.

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While the film was photographed in Technicolor's large format Technirama wide screen system, 20th Century-Fox changed the credit on their prints to reflect it was in CinemaScope and Color by DeLuxe.

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Luchino Visconti wanted Laurence Olivier for the title role but his producers insisted on a movie star with clout at the box office and thus, Burt Lancaster was cast.

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Goofs

There is much kissing of hands during the movie. According to the book "Histoire de la politesse de 1789 à nos jours (History of good manners from 1789 till today)" by F. Rouvillois, the kissing of hands only appeared at the turn of the XXth century when the story in the movie was supposed to take place in 1860-1862, more than 40 years before.

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During one of the long shots of the journey to Donnafugata, a blur crosses the screen near the center, apparently caused by a fly crawling over the lens.

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In the first scenes of the movie, Burt Lancaster goes to his girlfriend's home, who is about 40 year's old in 1860, but she has a vaccine scar on her left arm. The first vaccine was found in 1885 by Louis Pasteur.

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Quotes

Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Yes, love, of course! Fire and flames for a year, ashes for thirty. I too know what love is.

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Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Sleep, my dear Chevalley, eternal sleep, that is what Sicilians want. And they will always resent anyone who tries to awaken them, even to bring them the most wonderful of gifts. And, between ourselves, I doubt very strongly whether this new Kingdom has very many gifts for us in its luggage. All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really a wish for death. Our sensuality, wish for oblivion. Our knifings and shootings, a hankering after extinction. Our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a desire for voluptuous immobility, that is... for death again.

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Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: I belong to an unlucky generation, astride between two worlds and ill-at-ease in both. And what is more, I am completely without illusions. Now, what would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty for self-deception, an essential requisite for wanting to guide others. No, I cannot lift a finger in politics. It would be bitten off.

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