Damned (Italia/Saksa/Sveitsi 1969) BD

BLU-RAY (UUSI, MUOVEISSA)

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.

The Damned (Italia/Saksa/Sveitsi 1969)
Ohjaus: Luchino Visconti
Näyttelijät: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Florinda Bolkan, Charlotte Rampling

Julkaisu: The Criterion Collection - Iso-Britannia
Formaatti: Blu-ray
Aluekoodi: B
Kuvaformaatti: 16:9 – 1080p
Kuvasuhde: 1.85:1
Kesto: 158 min

ÄÄNIRAIDAT
englanti: LPCM Mono
italia: LPCM Mono

TEKSTITYKSET
englanti, englanti kuulorajoitteisille

EKSTRAT
Luchino Visconti 1970 Interview (39:43)
Visconti on Set - 1969 featurette (9:20)
2021 Interview with scholar Stefano Albertini (15:35)
Archival interview with Helmut Berger (5:29)
Archival interview with Ingrid Thulin (10:23)
Archival interview with Charlotte Rampling (3:38)
Trailer