The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Bj�rn Andr�sen, a shy 15-year-old teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and the so distant Japan. Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Bj�rn takes us on a remarkable journey made of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragic events in what could be Bjorn's last attempt for him to finally get his life back on track.

Director: Kristina Lindström
Director: Kristian Petri
Producer: Stina Gardell
Writer: Kristina Lindström
Writer: Kristian Petri
Music: Filip Leyman
Music: Anna Von Hausswolff
Cinematographer: Erik Vallsten
Subject: Björn Andrésen
Subject: Luchino Visconti