The Damned (1969) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

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"The Damned," directed by Luchino Visconti. Eine dunkle Illustration zeigt eine Person mit Totenkopf und roten Nägeln. Ab 18.

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Country of origin:: Italien, 1969
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Item number:: 10695344
UPC/EAN:: 5050629216233
Release date:: 25.10.2021
Series:: Criterion Collection - No. 1098
Genre:: Drama
Playing time ca.:: 157 Min.
Director:: Luchino Visconti
Actor:: Helmut Berger, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin
Film music:: Charlotte Rampling, Maurice Jarre
Original title:: La caduta degli dei / Die Verdammten
Language:: Italienisch
Picture:: Widescreen
Subtitles:: Englisch
Specials:: + Interview from 1970 with director Luchino Visconti about the film
+ Archival interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, and Charlotte Rampling
+ Visconti On Set, a 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary
+ New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the sexual politics of the film

The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism’s total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler’s ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates—including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning Marlene Dietrich–like drag in his breakthrough role)—descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all-consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti’s luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family’s downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation.