Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Luchino ViscontiSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Olivier AssayasSelf - Movie Director | Self - Movie Director |
 Helmut BergerSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Maria CallasSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Claudia CardinaleSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Caterina D’AmicoSelf - Visconti's Archivist | Self - Visconti's Archivist |
 Alain DelonSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
| LLuchino GastelSelf - Director, Visconti's Nephew | Self - Director, Visconti's Nephew |
 Burt LancasterSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Anna MagnaniSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Silvana ManganoSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Marcello MastroianniSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Francesco RosiSelf - Movie Director (archive footage) | Self - Movie Director (archive footage) |
 Elisabeth RoudinescoSelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
| LLaurence SchifanoSelf - Visconti's Biographer | Self - Visconti's Biographer |