Event, visit and reportage from Venice, May 2024

Italian Version

Popcinema from 13 to 15 May 2024 visits Venice and its islands.

“The departing looked on, and his heart was torn. The atmosphere of the city, that slightly putrid smell which he had so sought to escape from — he breathed it now in deep, tenderly painful breaths. ... What seemed to him so hard to bear, even intolerable, was apparently the notion that he would never again set eyes on Venice, that this would be a permanent farewell.” (1)

The feeling of leaving Venice belongs to the literature on the most beautiful city in the world. Nowhere else in the world could Gustav von Aschenbach have met the most handsome boy in the world. Definitely not in Silesia, not in Munich, not in Pula.

A reportage from Venice is a story in search of beauty par excellence and the decadent flavor of a legend.

Credit picture: popcinema.org

1. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Translated from the German 1912 edition by Martin C. Doege <mdoege@compuserve.com>