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Set in 1930s Germany, the film centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party, and whose amoral and unstable heir, Martin (played by Berger in his breakthrough role), is embroiled in his family's machinations.
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Apr 17, 2021 · A film of aggressive, almost wearying beauty despite its depraved subject matter, The Damned is perhaps Visconti’s most famous film, along with Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia, 1971), his greatest international success, and Visconti’s last major work.
The Damned: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger. The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
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.
The Damned. A steel-magnate baroness (Ingrid Thulin), her lover (Dirk Bogarde) and her son (Helmut Berger) embody Nazi depravity.
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
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It is here where The Damned (1969) resides, a film that won the director his sole Academy Award® nomination (for Best Screenplay), and is both celebrated and, well, damned, depending on the critic; even so, most agree it is a memorable and ambitious affair.
Sep 29, 2021 · L uchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969) entangles two stories: the decline of an old high-bourgeois German family and the rise of National Socialism. “My film ends,” Visconti said, “where Nazism begins.”
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Time Out says. Visconti on the rise of Nazism as reflected within a German industrialist family in the '30s is as operatic and overblown as you'd expect, often to extremely...
A subversive juxtaposition of decadence and hedonistic amoralism, The Damned is a study of corruption—moral, ideological, political, sexual, familial and industrial corruption set amidst the rise of the nazi party in Germany in the 1930s. Visconti exposes the greed and corruption of an opportunistic ruling class family in a time of political ...
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich. The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost World War I, and during the depression that followed.
