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The Damned
Directed by
Luchino Visconti
R
1969
2h 38m
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7.4
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The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
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Cast of The Damned
Dirk Bogarde
Frederick Bruckmann
Ingrid Thulin
Sophie Von Essenbeck
Helmut Griem
Aschenbach
Helmut Berger
Martin Von Essenbeck
Renaud Verley
Günther Von Essenbeck
Umberto Orsini
Herbert Thallman
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Konstantin von Essenbeck
Albrecht Schoenhals
Baron Joachim Von Essenbeck
Florinda Bolkan
Olga
Nora Ricci
Governess
Charlotte Rampling
Elisabeth Thallman
Irina Wanka
Lisa Keller
Karin Mittendorf
Thilde Thallman
Valentina Ricci
Erika Thallman
Wolfgang Hillinger
Janek
Bill Vanders
Chief of Police
Howard Nelson Rubien
Dean of the University
Werner Hasselmann
Gestapo Officer
Peter Dane
Steelmill Clerk
Mark Salvage
Police Inspector
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The Damned Ratings & Reviews
Vogue
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
It is a curious film, intense and murky, and, to this reviewer, a failure.
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
A shocking, depraved, and sadistic tale of family dynamics with the wealthy von Essenbeck family.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Tracing the downfall of the von Essenbecks, a family of steel magnates now manufacturing and selling weapons to the Nazis, director Luchino Visconti uses The Damned to document the profligacy and debauchery that set the stage for Hitler's rise.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
An angry and subversive work of cinema which dabbles in melodrama to deliver a vision of tainted corruption.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
It's clear Visconti is pitching this as a melodrama.
Artforum
Manny Farber
A fascinating film, complexly conceived and composed in chiaroscuro color, melodramatic space, extravagant held-on poses.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A magnificent failure, an example of a great director working at the peak of his ability and somehow creating almost nothing at all. Surely no one else could have made this film; surely no one at all should have.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Even if somewhat remarkable in scope as a Nazi decadence pic, it's all so ponderous and repulsive."
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Imperfect and excessive -- and also essential.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
By boldly confronting the psycho-sexual depravity of the Nazi mindset, all the way through to is inevitable incestuous nature, Visconti creates a specific cinematic vernacular for viewing and discussing Hitler's manic ideology.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Visual remarkable, endlessly inventive critque of Hitler's Germany.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Lavishly mounted, Visconti's melodramatic spectacle draws parallels between the demise of a German rich and powerful clan and the rise of Hitler to power. One of the 1960s most popular and controversial international productions.
Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Occassionally overflows with self-indulgence and didacticism, weakening an otherwise and often potent critique
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
By the end of the opening sequence, the film has already indulged in pan-sexuality, corporate backstabbing, anti-reactionary suppression, pedophilia, and murder plots.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
the script feels like it's written by a graduate student doing a research paper on Mein Kampf
New York Times
Vincent Canby
A spectacle of such greedy passion, such uncompromising sensation, and such obscene shock that it makes you realize how small and safe and ordinary most movies are.
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