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Bookmark this pageThe Damned (1969)
Director: Luchino Visconti
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From Time Out Film Guide
Visconti on the rise of Nazism as reflected within a German industrialist family in the '30s is as operatic and overblown as you'd expect, often to extremely impressive effect. But the overall languorousness finally swamps even the carefully elaborated decadence, making heavy going of otherwise interesting performances from Bogarde and Rampling. And the indulgence of Helmut Berger (who debuts in drag, impersonating Dietrich) is already unmistakeable.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Luchino Visconti
Producer: Alfredo Levy, Ever Haggiag
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan full cast
Duration: 164 mins
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