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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
May 16, 2024 · The Damned: Directed by Roberto Minervini. With Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon, Timothy Carlson, Cuyler Ballenger. In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the uncharted Western territories.
- Roberto Minervini
- 2024-05-16
- History
- 89
A wealthy family's decline and fall in Nazi Germany, starring Dirk Bogarde and Helmut Berger. The film explores themes of incest, pedophilia, suicide, and the rise of fascism.
- (9.9K)
- Drama, War
- Luchino Visconti
- 1969-12-18
A 1969 film by the Italian master of social realism, The Damned depicts the moral decay of a wealthy family and a nation under Hitler's rule. With a star-studded cast, a Technicolor style, and a drag performance by Helmut Berger, the film is a scathing critique of fascism and its consequences.
- Frederick Bruckmann
Ebert criticizes Visconti's \"The Damned\" as a failure, a film that is impenetrable, claustrophobic and inaccessible. He questions the director's intention and purpose, and finds the film's story bizarre and confusing.
Charlotte Rampling. Elisabeth Thallman. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A steel-magnate baroness (Ingrid Thulin), her lover (Dirk Bogarde) and her son (Helmut Berger)...
- (19)
- Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
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Summaries. 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.