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.
- Henry Bacon
- 1998
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.
- (10K)
- Drama, War
- Luchino Visconti
- 1969-12-18
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.
- Frederick Bruckmann
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.
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...
- (19)
- Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
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