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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 - 17 March 1976) was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971).
Luchino Visconti was a visionary Italian director of film, theater, and opera, widely considered a founder of the Italian neorealist movement before transitioning to lavish, period-accurate historical epics.
He is celebrated for directing seminal cinematic works such as The Leopard, Death in Venice, and Rocco and His Brothers.
His filmography is noted for an operatic, decadent scale, meticulous attention to historical detail, and deep explorations of aristocratic decline and social upheaval.