A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a successor sympathetic to their .. Read more
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem |
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| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| Genres | Drama |
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A film which has been called baroque, Wagnerian, and just plain unpleasant; it is also rather a strain to watch, with exaggerated colour and make-up to match the rotting theme. Visconti uses sexual transgression as a sign of Fascism, while revealing, with
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Not Visconti's best
The exciting set-piece action sequences, such as the destruction of the SA by the SS on The Night Of The Long Knives, are the best things about this film.The ... read more »
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Plumbing the depths.
As one viewer has said, at least it is one to complete the Visconti opus. I feel the same way about Bogarde. I've now seen all his films at least once. I ... read more »
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The Damned
I have watched Death in Venice and The Leopard and was entranced by Visconti's ability to tell a story. In the first the story is relatively short and fast ... read more »
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The Damned
As with most of the Italian directors of the time this film is much more style than substance. Lovely costumes, beautiful characters, vivid colours, but very ... read more »
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Damned shame
Knowing what we know now, this is clearly Visconti’s vehicle for his lover Helmut Berger Amusing to see that he transferred from this Dynasty of the ... read more »
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This film is lubed
I'm on the verge of giving up with Visconti. No matter how hard I try my mind just kind of slips off his films as if they're lubed. It's just like ... read more »
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The Damned
Visconti shows the power of corrupted persons and the problems of becoming implicated in corrupt events. A really scary movie where the bad do not get their ... read more »
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Damned good
A great movie with a powerful theme and memorable performances. This is one that stays with you. The story is that of a German family, a rich and powerful ... read more »
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Not Visconti's best
The exciting set-piece action sequences, such as the destruction of the SA by the SS on The Night Of The Long Knives, are the best things about this film.The ... read more »
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A work of Art
It’s one man's vision. The acting and scripting are completely over the top – it was very daring to attempt this, and for ... read more »
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perverted and compelling
The plot is an apparently straightforward family quarrel about the ownership of a steelworks, which in the Nazi era of the film would convey much power to the ... read more »
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