Editing Luchino Visconti (section)

== Personal life ==
In later years, Visconti made no secret of his [[homosexuality]], though he remained a devout Catholic throughout his life.<ref name="soc">{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Jeremy|title=Visconti, Luchino|url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/great-directors/luchino-visconti/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211001033803/https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/great-directors/luchino-visconti/|archive-date=1 October 2021|work=[[Senses of Cinema]]|series=Great Directors|date=22 July 2005 |issue=87|access-date=1 October 2021}}</ref> "I am a Catholic," he commented in 1971. "I was born a Catholic, I was baptized a Catholic. I cannot change what I am, I cannot easily become a [[Protestantism|Protestant]]. My ideas may be unorthodox, but I am still a Catholic."<ref name="flatley" /> While his first 3-year-relationship from 1936, with the photographer 
[[Horst P. Horst]], remained discreet because of the prejudices of the time, he later showed up openly in the company of his lovers, among them the director and producer [[Franco Zeffirelli]]<ref>Silva, Horacio, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/style/tmagazine/t17visconti.html "The Aristocrat"], ''The New York Times'', 17 September 2006. (Overview of Visconti's life and career) Retrieved 7 November 2011</ref> and the actor [[Udo Kier]].<ref>Laurence Schifano: ''Luchino Visconti. Prince of film'', biography, 1988</ref> His last lover was the [[Austria]]n actor [[Helmut Berger]], who played Martin in Visconti's film ''[[The Damned (1969 film)|The Damned]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Damned|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/damned-1970-2|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130707020851/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/damned-1970-2|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2013|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> Berger also appeared in Visconti's ''[[Ludwig (film)|Ludwig]]'' in 1973 and ''[[Conversation Piece (film)|Conversation Piece]]'' in 1974, along with [[Burt Lancaster]]. Zeffirelli also worked as part of the crew in production design, as assistant director, and other roles in a number of Visconti's films, operas, and theatrical productions. According to Visconti's autobiography, he and [[Umberto II of Italy]] had a romantic relationship during their youth in the 1920s.<ref>Dall'Oroto, Giovanni "Umberto II" from ''Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History'', London: Psychology Press, 2002 p. 453.</ref>

Visconti was hostile to the [[Protests of 1968]] and didn't even try to follow the movement and adopt the airs of youth, like [[Alberto Moravia]] or [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] did (although the latter was certainly not sympathetic towards the protestors). In his view, the protesters sought change for the sake of destruction without building something new. Disgusted, he looked at the young people in their enthusiasm, outbursts of anger, parties and tumults, their abstract speeches, their juggling with [[Mao]], [[Marx]], and [[Che Guevara]]. They saw him as a symbol of reaction, a member of the mandarin caste. The emerging radical-left [[terrorism in Italy]] frightened him and made him fear the rise of a new [[fascism]].<ref>L. Schifano: ''Luchino Visconti. Fürst des Films'', biography (German translation), 1988, p. 412−415</ref>

Visconti has a [[grandnephew]], [[Uberto Pasolini]], who is also a filmmaker.<ref name="uberto1">{{Cite news |title=Director Uberto Pasolini presents his movie on loneliness in Madrid |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2014/11/19/director-uberto-pasolini-presents-his-movie-on-loneliness-in-madrid/ |date=2016-09-21 |access-date=2024-09-09 |work=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] |editor-last=Light |editor-first=Jeff |issn=1063-102X |quote=His surname is [[Pasolini (surname)|Pasolini]] and he is a [[grandnephew]], on his mother's side, of late Italian film director Luchino Visconti. |author-mask=4 |author-link=Staff writer}}</ref> (Uberto, however, has no known relation to the aforementioned director, [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]].)<ref name="uberto2">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nihrff.de/en/nowhere-special/ |title=''Nowhere Special'' — Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival |date=2021-07-16 |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=NIHRFF Website |author-link=Staff writer |quote=BIOGRAPHY: Uberto Pasolini was born in [[Rome]] in 1957, surprisingly not related to [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], but a (grand-)nephew of Luchino Visconti. |author-mask=4}}</ref>