THE DAMNED [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama, Foreign, War
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Albrecht Schoenhals, Florinda Bolkan, Nora Ricci, Charlotte Rampling, Irina Wanka, Karin Mittendorf, Valentina Ricci, Wolfgang Hillinger, Bill Vanders, Howard Nelson Rubien, Werner Hasselmann, Peter Dane, Mark Salvage, Karl-Otto Alberty, John Frederick, Richard Beach, Klaus Höhne, Ernst Kuhr, Peter Brandt, Wolfgang Ehrlich, Ester Carloni, Antonietta Fiorito, Jessica Dublin, Piero Morgia, Judith Burnett, Al Cliver, Giada Desideri, Karl Menzel, Michele Scalera, Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli
• Director: Luchino Visconti
• Runtime: 2:37
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Praesidens-Pegaso Italnoleggio, Eichberg Film, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie