Actually, Visconti had a personal connection to “The Stranger,” which he had been trying to film since the early 1960s.

But he has handled Camus with an almost excessive reverence, and halfway through we realize the film will have no surprises. The Stranger; Directed by: Luchino Visconti: Produced by: Dino De Laurentiis: Screenplay by: Luchino Visconti Suso Cecchi d'Amico: Based on: The Stranger Albert Camus: Starring: Marcello Mastroianni Anna Karina Bernard Blier Georges Wilson: Release date. Luchino Visconti's film version of Camus' famous novel is excellent. Directed by: Luchino Visconti.

The Stranger is a film directed by Luchino Visconti with Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Georges Wilson, Bernard Blier, .... Year: 1967. W – Luchino Visconti NY Times: ‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni – J. Hoberman YouTube: The Stranger(movie footage) based on Albert Camus’ masterpiece YouTube: “The Stranger” by Albert Camus – 1967 – Dir. In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a French man who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder. Synopsis: Lo Straniero (The Stranger) (1967), Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus's novel "L'Etranger", received mixed press on first release and has rarely been seen since. 104 minutes: Country: Italy: Language: French/Italian Plot. Lo straniero.

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Genres: Drama. Original title: Lo straniero. 14 October 1967: Running time. A Feature film by Luchino Visconti. Starring: Georges Wilson, Bernard Blier, Anna Karina, Marcello Mastroianni. A trial takes place. One of the witnesses was at the funeral of Arthur Meursault's mother. If Visconti had tampered with Albert Camus' masterpiece, I suppose I would have responded with knee-jerk indignation. Release in France : 20/10/1967. The Stranger. Luchino Visconti 1:42:52 Apr 29, 2014 - Luchino Visconti - The Stranger (1967) (O estrangeiro - Albert Camus) - YouTube Rated the #112 best film of 1967, and #9605 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users). As much as it is possible to really capture Camus (his prose, when you really read it, seems too uncanny and slippery for that), this movie does it. The curious fault of Luchino Visconti's "The Stranger" is that the film follows the book too closely.