Dorian Gray (1970 film) with the knife (thereby inadvertently killing himself), he is seen committing suicide with the knife deliberately. Dorian Gray (1970 film) Dorian Gray (Italian: "Il dio chiamato Dorian") aka "The Sins of Dorian Gray" is a 1970 movie adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" starring Helmut Berger. The Italian title translates as "A God Called Dorian". Directed by Massimo Dallamano and produced by Harry Alan Towers, the film stresses the decadence and eroticism of the story and changes the setting to early 1970s London. The sexual liberation of the late 1960s and early 1970s provides a fitting
The Picture of Dorian Gray (opera) has changed, with a cruel expression around the mouth. He muses that the painting has become 'the visible emblem of my conscience'. He pledges to reform his life and marry Sibyl to make amends. However, Lord Henry arrives with the news that Sibyl Vane has committed suicide. He calms Dorian by assuring him that she was less real than Shakespeare's heroines that she portrayed. Dorian agrees to go to the opera with him that night. Looking again at the altered portrait, he resolves to let it represent the life he shall now lead, in search of 'pleasures secret and subtle,