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      The Damned

      R Released Oct 14, 1969 2h 33m Drama LGBTQ+ List
      84% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 82% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A steel-magnate baroness (Ingrid Thulin), her lover (Dirk Bogarde) and her son (Helmut Berger) embody Nazi depravity. Read More Read Less

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times A magnificent failure, an example of a great director working at the peak of his ability and somehow creating almost nothing at all. Surely no one else could have made this film; surely no one at all should have. Rated: 1/4 Jul 2, 2018 Full Review Eric Henderson Slant Magazine By the end of the opening sequence, the film has already indulged in pan-sexuality, corporate backstabbing, anti-reactionary suppression, pedophilia, and murder plots. Rated: 3/4 Feb 17, 2004 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times A spectacle of such greedy passion, such uncompromising sensation, and such obscene shock that it makes you realize how small and safe and ordinary most movies are. Rated: 5/5 May 20, 2003 Full Review Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Vogue It is a curious film, intense and murky, and, to this reviewer, a failure. Jun 20, 2023 Full Review Brian Susbielles InSession Film A shocking, depraved, and sadistic tale of family dynamics with the wealthy von Essenbeck family. Feb 28, 2023 Full Review David Harris Spectrum Culture 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 and debauchery that set the stage for Hitler’s rise. Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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      David B As cold and sterile as a brand new walk-in freezer. Even the nude bodies are as sexless and lifeless as raw fillets that have just had the silver skin peeled off them. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/22/23 Full Review Tamara K You know you're watching a film with no quality control when Nazis are smoking filter tipped cigarettes when they were invented until the 1950s. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/24/23 Full Review kliff h 12/10-22 (rewatch) Criterion 2K. A long dark and gritty section of Viscontis visions of the Nazi rise to power. Its hard to not think of movies in the same genre like, Salo, Mephisto, The Night Porter etc. So much suffering and hardship in the 30-40s, endless disgust and countless lives taken for no good reason. Yet Visconti himself, as openly gay at the time and beyond, makes this into a crusade for his proclaiming sexuality, protraiting the nazis as very overrepresentive gay, as to faulter them even more. So were parts are manageable realistic it turns to a orgy fest, without any real grip of reality. He paints the dangers though lack to emphasise it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought it was boring . I love Italian cinema but of the 3 Visconti films I've watched only Ludwig grabbed my attention. Lots of overacting and quite a lot of dull moments. What is the point of all this . Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/22 Full Review Audience Member I'd forgotten just how sick and twisted a film The Dammed is. Probably the best account of the moral corruption of Nazism. Seen through a family tearing itself apart. Essential cinema. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Not only the generalized victims suffered during pre-WW2, everyone suffered. Even the bourgeois class suffered. The Damned gives us a perspective not very unlike movies like "The Night Porter, Mr.Klein and Mepisto", kind of the same essence are being absorbed. The cold innerself, lost in the shell of a sharp dressed appearance, until the mind gets lost into the absurd seriousness of the fall of a nation, an empire and nearly the whole world. Hollow, empty and meaningless alongside the strive for class, lust and pleasure. Intoxicated gay nazi's are being slaughtered, not sadisticly but relentless. Visconti beating Pasolini with 6 years of settling onto the sadistic nazi/fascistic empire. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A steel-magnate baroness (Ingrid Thulin), her lover (Dirk Bogarde) and her son (Helmut Berger) embody Nazi depravity.
      Director
      Luchino Visconti
      Producer
      Pietro Notarianni
      Screenwriter
      Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
      Distributor
      Warner Bros., Warner Home Vídeo
      Production Co
      Eichberg-Film GmbH, Praesidens-Pegaso Italnoleggio
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 14, 1969, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 20, 2017
      Runtime
      2h 33m
      Sound Mix
      Mono
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.37:1)