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Plot. In Germany in early 1933, the Essenbecks are a wealthy and powerful industrialist family who have, reluctantly, begun doing business with the newly-elected Nazi government.
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.
The Damned. 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.
Tracing the downfall of the von Essenbecks, a family of steel magnates now manufacturing and selling weapons to the Nazis, director Luchino Visconti uses The Damned to document the profligacy...
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
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Luchino Visconti's subversive film The Damned depicts National Socialism in a microcosm; here in the form of the wealthy von Essenbeck family during the rise of the Nazi's in 1930's Germany. The family at the centre is used as a mirror to a nation in moral decline; a time where morality plays second fiddle to political power.
Sep 29, 2021 · 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.”
Scheming exec Frederick (Bogarde), a budding fascist with some serious sexual identity issues, joins forces in both finance and sex with the family's eldest daughter, Sophie (Thulin), whose debauched son, Martin (Helmut Berger), spends his time at cabarets doing drag performances as Marlene Dietrich.
