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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.
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.
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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How did Dirk Bogarde get from Doctor in the House to The Night Porter ? With a wilful desire to destroy his matinee idol status. And the signs were there for all to see in his early workThe Odeon, Leicester Square, 1960. The red-carpet premiere of a film that will change the story of British film and British society. The lights are killed, the crowd falls silent. The roar of industrial machinery thrums from the speakers. And over the noise comes the voice of the hero, a Brylcreemed lathe-operator with greasy overalls and insolent good looks. "Don't let the bastards grind you down," says Dirk Bogarde , and with those words, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and its star give instant definition to the new decade.In some fairly proximate parallel universe, this is how the 1960s might have begun. It could have happened here, too, if the owner of Pinewood studios
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