The Damned (1969)

Italian Movie.

Het hoofd van een familie van Duitse staalbaronnen wordt in 1933 vermoord door een ambitieuze schoondochter en haar minnaar, om zo de macht over te nemen die per erfrecht aan haar wilszwakke zoon toekomt. De persoonlijke wraakzucht van de jongen en manipulaties van een Gestapo-neef leiden echter tot de ondergang van het paar... Pas op voor gecensureerde versies.

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A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a successor sympathetic to their cause. But his choice sets off a round of in-fighting as his children battle for control of the company. His young grandson eventually takes charge, but his drug addiction wreaks havoc on his family when he brutally rapes his mother and turns her into an addict. By the end of the film, the...
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Nazis, including the party members in the family, are on the verge of taking over Europe.
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