The Night Porter

The Night Porter (Il Portiere di notte) is a 1974 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. The film was made by the Italian director Liliana Cavani.

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1974 - Dirk Bogarde - Charlotte Rampling - Italian

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Dirk Bogarde plays Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer, and Charlotte Rampling plays Lucia Atherton, a concentration camp survivor. The two accidentally meet after World War II in a Vienna hotel and fall back into their sadomasochistic relationship.

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SS - Concentration camp - World War II - Vienna - Sadomasochistic

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Liliana Cavani (the film's director) is a filmmaker whose work has provoked strong reaction from critics and public alike. For The Night Porter she was both celebrated for her courage in dealing with the disturbing theme of sexual transgression and, simultaneously, castigated for the startlingly controversial manner in which she presented that transgression ? within the scandalising context of a Nazi Holocaust narrative. It is this film for which she is still best-known.

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