Dirk Bogarde
Frederick Bruckmann
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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.
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.
Synopsis. Joachim von Essenbeck, a powerful German industrialist, celebrates his birthday in February 1933. The party is first disrupted by a transvestite performance by his grandson Martin, and then by the news that the Reichstag has been burned.
Tracing the downfall of the von Essenbecks, a family of steel magnates now manufacturing and selling weapons to the Nazis, director Luchino Visconti uses The Damned to document the profligacy...
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
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.
The Damned (1969) Trailer - Check out the official trailer for "The Damned," a 1969 movie starring Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, and Helmut Berger.US Release ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Theatrical trailer of "The Damned" (La caduta degli dei) by Luchino Visconti. Starring Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, René Kolldehoff...
A decadent German family of great wealth wallows in its own decay as its factories produce armaments for Hitler and his followers. 113 IMDb 7.4 2 h 37 min 1969.
The Damned (Italian title: La caduta degli dei [literally "The Fall of the Gods"]) is a 1969 Italian-German drama film written and directed by Luchino Visconti. The plot centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party, a thinly veiled reference to the Essen-based Krupp family of steel ...
