The Most Beautiful Boy in the World. Björn Andrésen documentary

In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty as the character of Tadzio in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Manns Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15yearold teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and, as a consequence, changed the course of the boys life. The remainder of Bjorns youth was turbulent and intense and took him from the Lido in Venice to London, to a welter of attention at the Cannes Film Festival, and to Japan.