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The Night Porter

FromLiliana Cavani

WithDirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Isa Miranda, Nino Bignamini, Marino Masè

Year1974

Duration118min.

LanguageItalian

Part of the Special Series NACHTBLENDE

“Both less tasteless […] and much more homoerotic than I’d been expecting.”
— Liz on Letterboxd

With the at times banned THE NIGHT PORTER, Liliana Cavani created not only one of the most controversial films of the 1970s, but also a disturbingly beautiful and critical portrait of Vienna — and the film that made Charlotte Rampling world-famous.

Vienna, 1957. Twelve years after committing atrocity upon atrocity as a Nazi officer in a concentration camp, Max (Dirk Bogarde) now works as a night porter in a prestigious hotel. The sudden appearance of Lucija Atherton (Charlotte Rampling) complicates his attempt to conceal his war-criminal past. Max and Lucia know each other from the camp, bound by a relationship incomprehensible to outsiders. In their case, the extreme perpetrator-victim power imbalance manifested itself in a violent yet passionate sadomasochistic liaison.