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Roger Ebert February 10, 1975. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The Night Porter" is as nasty as it is lubricious, a despicable attempt to titillate us by exploiting memories of persecution and suffering. It is (I know how obscene this sounds) Nazi chic.
Mar 17, 2023. Mar 9, 2023. Rated: B • Aug 30, 2022. A Nazi death-camp sadomasochist (Dirk Bogarde) and a woman (Charlotte Rampling) he abused meet again in 1957 Vienna.
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Piero Tosi. In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
The dark and melancholy story of a former teenage Nazi concentration camp inmate, Lucia (Charlotte Rampling), and the S.S. officer who was her torturer and lover, Max (Sir Dirk Bogarde), who accidentally meet again in a Vienna hotel in 1957, where Max works as the night porter.
Dec 19, 2019 · Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Read More. Thirteen years after World War II, Lucia, a survivor of a German concentration camp, runs into her former Nazi captor and lover Max, who is now a harmless night porter at the Vienna hotel where she and her husband are staying.
Dec 9, 2014 · An archetypal story of class and generational conflict, this dramatic film gives remarkable evidence of Cavani’s stylistic techniques and also serves as an ideal transition from her early documentaries to Galileo (1968), The Cannibals (1969), The Guest (1971), and Milarepa (1973).
The Night Porter. DRAMA. In Liliana Cavani’s scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
