1974 | Italy | Fiction

Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter)

  • English English 118 mins
  • Director | Liliana Cavani
  • Writer | Robert Gordon Edwards, Esa De Simone
  • Producer | Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati

STATUS: Released

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In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Trauma Obsession Power Memory Fascism
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The Criterion Collection
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