The Damned (film)
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| The Damned | |
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| Directed by | Luchino Visconti |
| Produced by | Ever Haggiag Alfred Levy |
| Written by | Luchino Visconti Enrico Medioli Nicola Badalucco |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Ingrid Thulin Helmut Griem Helmut Berger |
| Distributed by | WB |
| Release date(s) | October 14, 1969 |
| Running time | 155 min |
| Language | English/German |
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The Damned (Italian: La caduta degli dei, German: Götterdämmerung) is a 1969 film by Luchino Visconti, on the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1930's Germany.
The Damned has often been regarded as the first of Visconti's films described as 'The German Trilogy'. The others are Death in Venice (1973) and Ludwig (1973). Henry Bacon (1998) specifically categorizes these films together under a chapter 'Visconti & Germany'. Visconti's earlier films had analysed Italian society during the Risorgimento and postwar periods. Bondanella (2002) has seen the trilogy as a move to take a broader view of European politics and culture. Stylistically, 'they emphasise lavish sets and costumes, sensuous lighting, painstakingly slow camerawork, and a penchant for imagery reflecting subjective states or symbolic values,' comments Bondanella.
The Damned takes as its subject matter the relationships among the heavy industrialists in the late Weimar Republic on the cusp of Nazi success and the need for the Nazi leadership to discipline, and revise its fundamentals should it wish to reach the heights of power with the blessing of the powerful industrialists.
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