The Night Porter (1974) ( Il portiere di notte ) ( Nightporter )

The Night Porter (1974) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$34.99

Original Title: Il portiere di notte
Alternate Title: Nightporter
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

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

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Liliana Cavani

Written By:
Barbara Alberti
Liliana Cavani

Actors:
Dirk Bogarde ..... Maximilian Theo Aldorfer
Charlotte Rampling ..... Lucia Atherton
Philippe Leroy ..... Klaus
Gabriele Ferzetti ..... Hans
Giuseppe Addobbati ..... Stumm
Isa Miranda ..... Countess Stein
Nino Bignamini ..... Adolph
Marino Masé ..... Atherton
Amedeo Amodio ..... Bert
Piero Vida ..... Day Porter
Geoffrey Copleston ..... Kurt
Manfred Freyberger ..... Dobson
Ugo Cardea ..... Mario
Hilda Gunther ..... Greta
Nora Ricci ..... The Neighbor

Synopsis:

Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' needs, from cold water to a bed-warming gigolo. Then Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) arrives at the hotel, on the arm of her husband, an American composer, and Max's past comes flooding back to him. It turns out Max was an S.S. officer at a Nazi concentration camp where Lucia was a beautiful young prisoner. She became, in effect, Max's sexual slave. Now, years later, their reunion shatters both of their lives. Lucia stays in Vienna after her husband travels on, in order to see Max, and they find themselves caught up in a renewal of their former sadomasochistic relationship. Max has an upcoming show trial for his war crimes. His former S.S. comrades have been carefully destroying documents and "filing away" witnesses to clear all their names, and, while Max tries to keep Lucia's existence a secret from them, they eventually find out about her. They consider her a threat, and they urge Max to turn her over to them. He quits his job, and he and Lucia hide out in his apartment, while his former friends keep watch. Liliana Cavani (Ripley's Game) co-wrote and directed this controversial film, Il Portiere di notte, which she reportedly based partly on her own interviews with a Holocaust survivor.

The dark and melancholy story of a former teenage Nazi concentration camp inmate, Lucia, and the S.S. officer who was her torturer/lover, Max, who accidentally meet again in a Vienna hotel in 1957 where Max works as the night porter. They resume their sadomasochistic relationship, although Max's former S.S. comrades have something different in mind for them. The story unfolds like a gruesome dance of death.

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 27 December, 2020.