| Release Date: | Jul 1963 |
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| Genres: | Drama / History / Romance / War |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 1 nomination |
| Cast: | Burt Lancaster (Prince Don Fabrizio Salina), Claudia Cardinale (Angelica Sedara / Bertiana), Alain Delon (Tancredi Falconeri), Paolo Stoppa (Don Calogero Sedara), Rina Morelli (Princess Maria Stella Salina), Romolo Valli (Father Pirrone), Terence Hill (Count Cavriaghi (as Mario Girotti)), Pierre Clémenti (Francesco Paolo), Lucilla Morlacchi (Concetta), Giuliano Gemma (Garibaldi's General), Ida Galli (Carolina), Ottavia Piccolo (Caterina), Carlo Valenzano (Paolo), Brook Fuller (Little Prince), Anna Maria Bottini (Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess), Lola Braccini (Donna Margherita), Marino Masé (Tutor (as Marino Mase')), Howard Nelson Rubien (Don Diego (as Howard N. Rubien)), Tina Lattanzi (), Marcella Rovena (), Rina De Liguoro (Princess of Presicce), Valerio Ruggeri (), Giovanni Melisenda (Don Onofrio Rotolo), Giancarlo Lolli ((as Carlo Lolli)), Vittorio Duse (), Vanni Materassi (), Giuseppe Stagnitti (), Carmelo Artale (), Olimpia Cavalli (Mariannina), Anna Maria Surdo (), Halina Zalewska ((as Alina Zalewska)), Winni Riva (), Stelvio Rosi (), Carlo Palmucci (), Dante Posani (), Rosolino Bua (), Ivo Garrani (Colonel Pallavicino), Leslie French (Cavalier Chevally), Serge Reggiani (Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo), Marie Bell ((uncredited)), Lou Castel (Party guest (uncredited)), Sandra Christolini (Youngest Daughter (uncredited)), Franco Gulà ((uncredited)), Maurizio Merli ((uncredited)), Augusto Pescarini ((uncredited)), Paola Piscini ((uncredited)), Amalia Troiani ((uncredited)) |
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 to 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 forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.
