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Mood:
- ContemplativeGloomySincereBleakSexual
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Plot:
- PsychologicalDangerous AttractionDestructive RelationshipHaunted By the PastLovers ReunitedDangerLove and RomanceMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignErotic
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- EuropeHotel
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- Controversial
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Strong Sexual ContentNudityProfanityViolent Content
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The Night Porter, 1974
Italian
Italy
Profile of The Night Porter
The mood of The Night Porter is gloomy, contemplative, and sincere. The plot centers around lovers reunited, a destructive relationship, and a dangerous attraction. It is a drama, foreign, and erotic movie. In approach, The Night Porter is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a hotel. The setting is Europe. The Night Porter happens in the 1950s. The movie is known for being controversial. Note that it includes strong sexual content, nudity, and profanity.
Summary of The Night Porter
Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by the
American actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former "relationship"--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. The Night Porter is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, The Night Porter is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch.
Details
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy |
| Release date: | 1 October 1974 |
| Runtime: | 118 min |
Cast and Crew
as Maximilian Theo Aldorfer
as Lucia Atherton
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