Death in Venice
The Lido has also hosted numerous film-shoots. In 1971 the film "Death in Venice" directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen, and based on the Death in Venice novel published in 1912 by Thomas Mann was screened. Both the novel and the film were set at lido and the Grand Hotel des Bains, where Thomas Mann stayed with his wife and brother in the summer of 1911. The novel was also turned into the Death in Venice opera by Benjamin Britten (his last opera) in 1973 and a ballet by John Neumeier in 2003.