The Damned (1969)

Directors

Luchino Visconti

Cast

Albrecht Schoenhals, Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde, Ester Carloni, Florinda Bolkan, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem, Ingrid Thulin, Irina Wanka, Jessica Dublin, John Frederick, Karl-Otto Alberty, Nora Ricci, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini

The story

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. On the night of the birthday of the family's conservative patriarch, Baron Joachim von Essenbeck, a member of the old German nobility who detests the upstart Adolf Hitler, the family's children have prepared performances. Joachim's grandnephew Günther plays a classical piece on his cello, while his grandson Martin performs a drag performance, which is interrupted by news that the Reichstag is burning.

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