The Leopard: plot, cast and streaming of the film with Alain Delon on Rai 1
Tonight, August 18, 2024, at 8:35 pm on Rai 1, Il Gattopardo will be broadcast, a 1963 film directed by Luchino Visconti, broadcast as a tribute to the death of Alain Delon, which occurred today. The subject is based on the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and the figure of the film’s protagonist is inspired by that of the book’s author’s great-grandfather, Prince Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi di Lampedusa, who was an important astronomer and who in the literary fiction becomes Prince Fabrizio di Salina, and his family between 1860 and 1910, in Sicily. But let’s see all the information in detail together.
Plot
In May 1860, after Garibaldi’s landing in Marsala in Sicily, Don Fabrizio witnesses with detachment and melancholy the end of the aristocracy. Seeing how the administrators and landowners of the new rising social class take advantage of the new political situation, the noble class understands that the end of their superiority is now near.
Don Fabrizio, who belongs to a family of ancient nobility, is reassured by his favorite nephew Tancredi who, despite fighting in Garibaldi’s ranks, tries to turn events to his advantage and quotes the famous phrase: “If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change”. A mirror of Sicilian reality, this phrase symbolizes the ability to adapt that Sicilians, subjected throughout history to the administration of many foreign rulers, have had to develop. And Don Fabrizio’s response is also emblematic: “… And afterward it will be different, but worse.”
When, like every year, the prince and his family go to the summer residence of Donnafugata, he finds as the new mayor of the town Calogero Sedara, a bourgeois of humble origins, uncouth and poorly educated, who has become rich and has made a career in politics. Tancredi, who had previously shown some sympathy for Concetta, the prince’s eldest daughter, falls in love with Angelica, daughter of Don Calogero, whom he will eventually marry, certainly attracted by her considerable wealth.
The Leopard: The Cast of the Film
We have seen the plot of The Leopard, but what is the complete cast of the film? Above all stands out the great Alain Delon, who died today, who played Tancredi. Below is the list of actors with their respective roles:
- Burt Lancaster: Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina
- Alain Delon: Tancredi Falconeri
- Claudia Cardinale: Angelica Sedara/Donna Bastiana
- Paolo Stoppa: Don Calogero Sedara
- Rina Morelli: Princess Maria Stella of Salina
- Lucilla Morlacchi: Concetta
- Romolo Valli: Father Pirrone
- Mario Girotti: Count Cavriaghi
- Pierre Clémenti: Francis Paul of Salina
- Serge Reggiani: Don Ciccio Tumeo
- Maurizio Merli: Fulco, a friend of Tancredi
- Giuliano Gemma: Garibaldi’s general
- Ida Galli: Carolina
- Octavia Piccolo: Catherine
- Charles Valenzano: Paul
- Brook Fuller: Prince
- Ivo Garrani: Colonel Pallavicino
- Anna Maria Bottini: Mademoiselle Dombreuil, housekeeper
- Lola Braccini: Margherita woman
- Marino Masè: tutor
- Howard Nelson Rubien: Don Diego
- Tina Lattanzi: noblewoman at the ball
- Ernesto Admiral: General
- Marcella Rovena: peasant
- Rina De Liguoro: Princess of Presicce
- Valerio Ruggeri: Colonel
- Giovanni Melisenda: Don Onofrio Rotolo
- Vittorio Duse: Colonel
- Vanni Materassi: Sergeant
- Olympia Cavalli: Mariannina
- Winni Riva: Waitress
- Stelvio Rosi: Sergeant
- Leslie French: Knight Chevalley
- Gino Santercole: Donnafugata’s Man
- Lou Castel: General
- Michela Roc: farmer
- Pino Caruso: young patriot
- Tuccio Musumeci: young patriot
Streaming and TV
Where to watch The Leopard on live TV and live streaming? The film, as mentioned, will be broadcast tonight – August 18, 2024 – at 8:35 pm on Rai 1. It will also be possible to follow it in live streaming via the free platform RaiPlay.it which allows you to watch and rewatch various Rai programs from your PC, tablet and smartphone.
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