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Charlotte Rampling | Elisabeth Thallman | |
Florinda Bolkan | Olga | |
Ingrid Thulin | ||
Rene Koldehoff | ||
Dirk Bogarde | Friedrick Bruckmann | |
Helmut Berger | Martin von Essenbeck | |
Helmut Griem | Aschenbach | |
Umberto Orsini | Herbert Thallman | |
Renaud Verley | ||
Albrecht Schoenhals | ||
Peter Dane | Steelmill Clerk | |
Werner Hasselmann | Gestapo Officer | |
Wolfgang Hillinger | Janek | |
Reinhard Kolldehoff | Baron Konstantin von Essenbeck | |
Karin Mittendorf | Thilde Thallman | |
Howard Nelson Rubien | Dean of the University | |
Nora Ricci | Governess | |
Valentina Ricci | Erika Thalman | |
Mark Salvage | Police Inspector |
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Producer | Ever Haggiag
Alfred Levy Anthony Hinds |
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Writer | Nicola Badalucco
Luchino Visconti Enrico Medioli |
He was soon to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany. It begins on the night of the Reichstag Fire in February 1933. It ends shortly after the infamous "Night of the Long Knives" in June 1934. In between it's one of the most spellbinding studies of corruption ever: Luchino Visconti's The Damned, a film of hypnotic moods and overwhelming visual splendor. The Damned follows a German family's decline as the Nazi party rises. Dirk Bogarde stars as a schemer who makes a Macbeth-like move to take over a steelworks and munitions empire on the eve of Hitler's campaign to eliminate all opposition. Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem and Charlotte Rampling play others ensnared in family and political turmoil. And Helmut Berger makes his startling debut as the family heir, a handsome dandy who evolves into a sinister embodiment of unrepentant evil. |
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