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A film by this director opens with a birthday party where, in succession, two girls in blue recite a poem, a student plays the cello, and a young man performing in drag is interrupted by news of the Reichstag fire. Twelve minutes had to be cut from that film to downgrade it from an X rating, including parts of an incestuous scene between the heir of the industrialist Essenback family and his mother. In another film by this director, a man confesses to the protagonist that he voted against a referendum that supposedly (*) passed unanimously by 512 votes to none. That film by this director chronicles the romance between Angelica and the opportunistic Tancredi alongside the decay of a Burt Lancaster-played Sicilian prince during the Risorgimento. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Italian director of several historical melodramas, including The Damned and The Leopard. ■END■

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