The Night Porter (1974)

Een Joodse vrouw ziet in 1957 in de nachtportier van een Weens hotel de officier van het concentratiekamp terug, die haar als 15-jarige dwong tot een sado-masochistische relatie waarin ze geleidelijk aan een willige partner werd. Omdat beiden nooit van die herinnering zijn losgekomen, hervatten ze de relatie.

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Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by the
American actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former "relationship"--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the...
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woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. The Night Porter is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, The Night Porter is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch.
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