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The Damned

La caduta degli Dei

1969

Luchino Visconti

Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger ...

7.5

5,307

Drama A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a successor sympathetic to their cause. But his choice sets off a round of in-fighting as his children battle for control of the company. His ... [+]

	Author	Review
Canada	Jim Tudor Screen Anarchy	"While the filmmaker's take on what passes for decadent and amoral have culturally shifted somewhat, much of what's depicted continues to resonate as such (...) The cast, all tremendously game and wholly trusting of Visconti"	POS

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