Bibliograph

The damned, producers, Alfred Levy and Ever Haggiag ; screenwriters, Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti; director, Luchino Visconti

Type

Label

The damned, producers, Alfred Levy and Ever Haggiag ; screenwriters, Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti; director, Luchino Visconti

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The damned

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

1262585799

Responsibility statement

producers, Alfred Levy and Ever Haggiag ; screenwriters, Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti; director, Luchino Visconti

Runtime

157

Series statement

Criterion collection, 1098

Summary

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. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning Marlene Dietrich-like drag in his breakthrough role)--descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all-consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti's luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family's downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation

Technique

live action

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