Björn Andrésen, the Swedish actor best known for his breakout role in the 1971 film Death in Venice, has died aged 70.

At 15, Andrésen was cast in Italian director Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, based on Thomas Mann’s novella, in which he played Tadzio, a beautiful boy with whom an older man, played by Dirk Bogarde, becomes obsessed.

Visconti called Andrésen “the most beautiful boy in the world” in the press, a title which stuck – much to the dismay of Andrésen, who would later speak of how his negative experience working with Visconti affected the rest of his life. ‘Death in Venice screwed up my life’ – the tragic story of Visconti’s ‘beautiful boy’ Read more

“I felt like an exotic animal in a cage,” he told the Guardian in 2003 . Making the film had, he said in 2021, “scre

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