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The Damned
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1969 film by Luchino Visconti
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The Damned is a 1969 drama, art, and LGBTQ-related film directed by Luchino Visconti, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Nicola Badalucco and Enrico Medioli. A co-production of Germany and Italy, it was filmed in Germany, Austria, and at Lake Como and Lierna, and stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, and Helmut Berger, with cinematography by Pasqualino De Santis and Armando Nannuzzi, a score by Maurice Jarre, editing by Ruggero Mastroianni, and costumes by Piero Tosi. Its subject matter includes incest, a dysfunctional family, and Nazi Germany, and the dialogue is in Italian, German, and English.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It was produced by Eichberg-Film, Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico, Pegaso Cinematografica, and Praesidens, and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix. It ran 158 minutes, had a budget of 2,000,000, and earned 5,000,000 at the box office.
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7.3In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Cast
- Dirk Bogarde as Frederick Bruckmann
- Ingrid Thulin as Sophie Von Essenbeck
- Helmut Griem as Aschenbach
- Helmut Berger as Martin Von Essenbeck
- Renaud Verley as Günther Von Essenbeck
- Umberto Orsini as Herbert Thallman
Themes
- nazi
- poison
- orgy
- opportunist
- family relationships
- industrialist
- murder
- male homosexuality
- cross dressing
- pedophile
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Key facts
- Italian
- La caduta degli dei
- Directed by
- Luchino Visconti
- Written by
- Nicola Badalucco , Enrico Medioli , Luchino Visconti
- Produced by
- Ever Haggiag, Alfred Levy
- Starring
- Dirk Bogarde Ingrid Thulin Helmut Griem Helmut Berger Renaud Verley Umberto Orsini Albrecht Schoenhals René Koldehoff Florinda Bolkan Charlotte Rampling
- Cinematography
- Armando Nannuzzi , Pasqualino De Santis
- Edited by
- Ruggero Mastroianni
- Music by
- Maurice Jarre
- Production companies
- Praesidens, Pegaso Cinematografica, Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico, Eichberg-Film
- Distributed by
- Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico (Italy) , Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (International)
- Release dates
- 14 October 1969 ( 1969-10-14 ) (Rome premiere) 16 October 1969 ( 1969-10-16 ) (Italy) 27 January 1970 ( 1970-01-27 ) (West Germany)
- Running time
- 154 minutes
- Countries
- Italy West Germany Switzerland
- Languages
- English, German
- Budget
- $2 million
- Box office
- 2,638,507 admissions (France), $1.2 million (US/Canada rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- German
- Main subject
- Nazi Germany
- Director
- Luchino Visconti
- Screenwriter
- Luchino Visconti
- Composer
- Maurice Jarre
- Cinematographer
- Armando Nannuzzi
- Narrative location
- Germany
- Filming location
- Lierna
- Duration
- 155
- FilmAffinity ID
- 434240
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1969-01-01
- film editor
- Ruggero Mastroianni
- title
- The Damned
- costume designer
- Piero Tosi
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 84%
- Commons category
- Les Damnés
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Encyclopedic overview
The Damned (Die Verdammten) (Italian: La caduta degli dei, lit. 'The Fall of the Gods') is a 1969 historical drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan, Reinhard Kolldehoff and Albrecht Schönhals in his final film. Set in 1930s Germany, the film centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party, and whose amoral and unstable heir, Martin (played by Berger in his breakthrough role), is embroiled in his family's machinations. It is loosely based on the German Krupp family of steel industrialists from Essen.
Principal photography of The Damned took place in locations throughout Italy, West Germany, and Austria. The film opened to widespread critical acclaim, but also faced controversy from ratings boards for its sexual content. In the United States, the film was given an X rating by the MPAA, which was lowered to a more marketable R after 12 minutes of offending footage were cut.
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