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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
- 2,638,507 admissions (France), $1.2 million (US/Canada rentals)
- 1998
- $2 million
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.
- (9.6K)
- Drama, War
- Luchino Visconti
- 1969-12-18
Reviews. The Damned. Roger Ebert February 05, 1970. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Luchino Visconti's “The Damned” is a magnificent failure, an example of a great director working at the peak of his ability and somehow creating almost nothing at all. Surely no one else could have made this film; surely no one at all should have.
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The Damned: Directed by Joseph Losey. With Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox. An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
- (3.8K)
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Joseph Losey
- 1965-07-07
Apr 17, 2021 · Luchino Visconti’s La caduta degli dei [ Götterdämmerung] ( The Damned, 1969) is such an outrageously excessive and daring film that one wonders, in retrospect, how Visconti got away with it. Even the film’s trailer is over the top, revelling in sadism and violence, suggesting an exploitation film rather than a serious historical account ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Sep 29, 2021. Share. 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.”
Jun 3, 2023 · Review. Tiasha Chakraborty June 3, 2023. The Damned (1969), followed by Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973), is a historical drama film by Luchino Visconti and the first installment of the aforementioned German trilogy.