Frederick Bruckmann
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Plot. In Germany in early 1933, the Essenbecks are a wealthy and powerful industrialist family who have, reluctantly, begun doing business with the newly-elected Nazi government.
As the imperious, glacial, ravishing Sophie Von Essenbeck in The Damned, Thulin is a sight for the sore eyes, an elixir for the perturbed souls, a poltergeist for the envious. Helmut Berger as Sophie's effeminate son Martin Von Essenbeck is equally chilling.
Apr 17, 2021 · Luchino Visconti’s La caduta degli dei [ Götterdämmerung] ( The Damned, 1969) is such an outrageously excessive and daring film that one wonders, in retrospect, how Visconti got away with it.
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.
A steel-magnate baroness (Ingrid Thulin), her lover (Dirk Bogarde) and her son (Helmut Berger) embody Nazi depravity.
Luchino Visconti's subversive film The Damned depicts National Socialism in a microcosm; here in the form of the wealthy von Essenbeck family during the rise of the Nazi's in 1930's Germany. The family at the centre is used as a mirror to a nation in moral decline; a time where morality plays second fiddle to political power.
It is here where The Damned (1969) resides, a film that won the director his sole Academy Award® nomination (for Best Screenplay), and is both celebrated and, well, damned, depending on the critic; even so, most agree it is a memorable and ambitious affair.
