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The Damned (Criterion Collection)
- (Subtitled)
- Format: Blu-ray
- Rated: R
- Release Date: 28/09/2021

The Damned (Criterion Collection)
- Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Helmut Berger, Charlotte Rampling, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem
- Director: Luchino Visconti
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Italian
- Subtitles: ENG
- Original Language: ENG
- Run Time: 157 minutes
- Year of Release: 1969
- UPC: 715515264419
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Product Notes
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 incestuous matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the perversely cruel heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning 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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna and Institut Lumière, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate Italian-language soundtrack
- Interview from 1970 with director Luchino Visconti about the film
- Archival interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, and Charlotte Rampling
- Visconti: Man of Two Worlds, a 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary
- New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the sexual politics of the film
- New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by scholar D. A. Miller"
Criterion Collection Presents:
The DAMNED
Credits
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CreditsCharlotte Rampling
Dirk Bogarde
Helmut Berger
Helmut Griem
Ingrid Thulin
Enrico Medioli
Niccola Badalucco
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DirectorsLuchino Visconti
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ProducersAlfred Levy
Ever Haggiag