Dorian Gray (1970 film) 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 backdrop for Dorian's escapades in this version, and also the general clothing and fashion style of
The Picture of Dorian Gray (opera) enters the dressing room. On doing so, she explains her poor performance by saying that because Dorian has shown her real love, she will no longer be able to 'mimic passion' on the stage. Dorian replies that she has killed his love for her: "Without your art, you are nothing!" Sibyl begs him not to leave her, but as she lies sobbing at his feet, he leaves. In a soliloquy, she wishes for his return, recalling fragments of "Romeo and Juliet", and stares at the poison bottle in her hands. "Scene 5" The next morning, Dorian sees that his portrait