UW Cinematheque - Three White Nights
White Nights (Le Notte Bianche) | Italy | 1957 | DCP | 101 min. | Italian with English subtitles Director: Luchino Visconti
Event Details
Date
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais
Visconti’s ravishing adaptation of a Dostoevsky story stars Mastroianni and Schell as two lonely souls whose chance meeting on a moonlit canal blossoms into a fragile romance haunted by past loves and melancholy longing. Set within a dreamlike, studio-built city of shadowy streets and shimmering canals, the film transforms a fleeting encounter into an achingly beautiful meditation on love.
Visconti’s ravishing adaptation of a Dostoevsky story stars Mastroianni and Schell as two lonely souls whose chance meeting on a moonlit canal blossoms into a fragile romance haunted by past loves and melancholy longing. Set within a dreamlike, studio-built city of shadowy streets and shimmering canals, the film transforms a fleeting encounter into an achingly beautiful meditation on love.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, September 26, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.