The Birth of the Leopard

The Birth of the Leopard

Die Geburt des Leoparden

Release date : 2019-10-22

Production country :

Germany,

Italy,

Latvia

Production company :

Kick Film,

Mistrus Media

Status : Released

Durasi : 90 Min.

Popularity : 0.543

9.3

Total Vote : 3

The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is considered a masterpiece. This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee – their unusual love story. The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St. Petersburg and later on – the family's castle in Stāmeriena, Latvia. During the war, in 1943, she fled to her husband in Palermo, where she would live until the day she died.