UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34777613
Format:
2 DVD-Video (157 min)
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1 Faltblatt
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1.85:1 aspect ratio
Edition:
[Two-DVD Special edition]
ISBN:
9781681438801
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [DVD-Video] 1098
Content:
The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism’s total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler’s ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates—including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning Marlene Dietrich–like drag in his breakthrough role)—descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all-consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti’s luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family’s downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation. (Criterion Collection)
Note:
Orig.: Italien, 1969.
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Untertitel: Englisch, Englisch SDH.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Film
Author information:
Visconti, Luchino
Author information:
Berger, Helmut
Author information:
Griem, Helmut
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