Director
Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
Composer
Filip Leyman, Anna Von Hausswolff
Cast
Björn Andrésen, Luchino Visconti
Edition 2021
93'
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2021
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Documentary
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Dialogue:
Italian, French, English, Swedish, Japanese
Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn Andrésen, the former teen star who once embodied legendary character Tadzio in Visconti’s masterpiece, takes us on a remarkable journey of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragedy in what could be Björn’s last attempt to finally get his life back on track.
In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and the so distant Japan. Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn takes us on a remarkable journey made of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragic events in what could be Bjorn’s last attempt for him to finally get his life back on track.
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World counts the personal cost of international fame. Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri document the tragic and troubled life of Björn Andrésen, an actor thrust into stardom aged 15, after being cast in Death in Venice.” - Sight & Sound
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Credits
Directors
Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
Composers
Filip Leyman, Anna Von Hausswolff
Cast
Björn Andrésen, Luchino Visconti
Scenario
Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
Director of Photography
Erik Vallsten
Editors
Dino Jonsäter, Hanna Lejonqvist
Producers
Stina Gardell
Production studios
Mantaray Film AB
Distributor
Amstelfilm
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Dialogue
Italian, French, English, Swedish, Japanese
Countries of production
Sweden
Year
2021
Filmography
Kristina Lindström
Palme (2012)
Kristian Petri
Rocket Garden (short, 1987), Tong Tana - En resa till Borneos inre (1989), Atlanten (1995), Sommaren (1995), Fyren (2000), Tokyo Noise (2002), Detaljer (2003), Brunnen (2005), Styckmordet: Berättelsen om en rättsskandal (2005), Bad Faith (2010), The Hotel (2016), Winter Light Revisited (2018)
