Benjamin Britten has adapted this into an opera, and director Luchino Visconti made a 1971 film adaptation of the novella ( Morte a Venezia) starring Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen. The novella is highly autobiographical: while holidaying in Venice, thirty-seven-year-old Mann, a married father, had crushed from afar on a ten-year-old Polish aristocrat, Wladyslaw Moes. Gustav finds himself drawn deeply into a ruinous inward passion, which has bad consequences for him as there is a cholera epidemic currently going down in the city. The story is about an aged writer, Gustav von Aschenbach, who travels to Venice on advice of his doctor and falls in love with a stunningly good-looking, aristocratic boy of fourteen, Tadzio, to whom he never speaks.
Death in Venice is a 1912 novella written by the German author, Thomas Mann (original title Der Tod in Venedig).
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