When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
