The Damned (1969) ( La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) )

The Damned (1969) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
150 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Luchino Visconti

Written By:
Nicola Badalucco
Enrico Medioli

Actors:
Dirk Bogarde ..... Friedrich Bruckmann
Ingrid Thulin ..... Baroness Sophie Von Essenbeck
Helmut Griem ..... Aschenbach
Helmut Berger ..... Martin Von Essenbeck
Renaud Verley ..... Günther Von Essenbeck
Umberto Orsini ..... Herbert Thallman
Reinhard Kolldehoff ..... Baron Konstantin Von Essenbeck
Albrecht Schoenhals ..... Baron Joachim Von Essenbeck
Florinda Bolkan ..... Olga
Nora Ricci ..... Governess
Charlotte Rampling ..... Elisabeth Thallman
Irina Wanka ..... Lisa Keller
Karin Mittendorf ..... Thilde Thallman
Valentina Ricci ..... Erika Thalman
Wolfgang Hillinger ..... Janek

Synopsis:

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German industrial firm. Through such characters as a German Baron, a child molester, a Nazi Storm Trooper, an innocent man framed for murder, and a Captain in the German SS, 'Damned' thus shows how so called 'German Upper Class Nobility' first resented Adolf Hitler, then accepted him, and at last embraced him.

The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost the great war and during the depression that followed. Now it's 1934 and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the great house accompanied by a rising manager at the baron's company. Two little girls recite poetry in the parlor and then play hide-and-seek with their cousin Martin. Suddenly there is a scream. The baron has been shot with their father's gun and the father flees the country.

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.

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