The Leopard
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggl…
The Leopard
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or help build a new Sicily, but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri, swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous 40-minute ball in which Tancredi introduces Angelica to society. —alfiehitchie 1860 Sicily. Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, and his family have long lived a life of privilege, largely isolated by the palace walls from the poverty and squalor experienced by the masses due to government corruption that pervades the island. It is however because of that corruption and squalor that he believes that Sicily would be better served being annexed by Italy, and the reason he supports his dashing and ambitious nephew, Tancredi Falconeri, joining Garibaldi's redshirts, who are currently battling the royalist army on the island. Despite loving his family, Don Fabrizio seemingly loves Sicily more as he does whatever he needs to ensure Sicily's strong future. As such, despite learning that his meek daughter Concetta is in love with Tancredi, who would marry her if given the opportunity, Don Fabrizio believes Tancredi needs a stronger wife to support his role in leading Sicily into a bright future with Italy. Who Tancredi eventually chooses is Angelica Sedara, the daughter of nouveau riche, ambitious and unrefined Don Calogero Sedara, and whose beauty is unrivaled against any other young woman she is around. Regardless of the thoughts of others on the matter, Don Fabrizio knows where he fits within the new Sicily. —Huggo
The Leopard
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The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara.
The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or help build a new Sicily, but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri, swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous 40-minute ball in which Tancredi introduces Angelica to society. —alfiehitchie 1860 Sicily.
Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, and his family have long lived a life of privilege, largely isolated by the palace walls from the poverty and squalor experienced by the masses due to government corruption that pervades the island. It is however because of that corruption and squalor that he believes that Sicily would be better served being annexed by Italy, and the reason he supports his dashing and ambitious nephew, Tancredi Falconeri, joining Garibaldi's redshirts, who are currently battling the royalist army on the island. Despite loving his family, Don Fabrizio seemingly loves Sicily more as he does whatever he needs to ensure Sicily's strong future.
As such, despite learning that his meek daughter Concetta is in love with Tancredi, who would marry her if given the opportunity, Don Fabrizio believes Tancredi needs a stronger wife to support his role in leading Sicily into a bright future with Italy. Who Tancredi eventually chooses is Angelica Sedara, the daughter of nouveau riche, ambitious and unrefined Don Calogero Sedara, and whose beauty is unrivaled against any other young woman she is around. Regardless of the thoughts of others on the matter, Don Fabrizio knows where he fits within the new Sicily.
—Huggo.