The Night Porter (1973)

Synopsis: Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by the American actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a... Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by the American actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former "relationship"--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. THE NIGHT PORTER is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, THE NIGHT PORTER is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch. [More]

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Isa Miranda

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Isa Miranda

Director: Liliana Cavani

Director: Liliana Cavani
Screenwriter: Liliana Cavani
Producer: Esa De Simone, Robert Gordon Edwards
Composer: Daniele Paris

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