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 corrupted soul (antithesis of the beautiful soul) is imbalanced and disordered, and, in itself, is undesirable, regardless of any advantage derived from acting unjustly. The picture of Dorian Gray is the means by which other people, such as his friend Basil Hallward, may see Dorian's distorted soul. Dorian attends a performance of "Tannhäuser", by Richard Wagner, and the narrative identifies him with the protagonist of the opera. Disruptive beauty is the thematic resemblance between the opera and "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Based upon a medieval historical figure, Tannhäuser is a singer whose art is so beautiful that Venus becomes