Leopard, The

Gorgeous cinematography, scenery, sets, and costumes dominate Luchino Visconti's lavish, engaging, colorful, 3-hour, Oscar-nominated 1963 film in which a well-respected Italian prince (Burt Lancaster) tries to keep his wife (Rina Morelli) and seven children (Lucilla Morlacchi, Brook Fuller, et al.) isolated and safe on his Sicilian estate during a time of political strife and raging war in the 1860s while his headstrong, handsome nephew (Alain Delon) returns home a war hero after serving as a Garibaldi Army captain and quickly falls in love with the beautiful, free-spirited daughter (Claudia Cardinale) of the mayor (Paolo Stoppa).
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