The night porter / Janus Films ; Joseph E. Levine presents for Ital Noleggio Cinematografico S.p.A. ; the Robert Gordon Edwards, Esa De Simone, Lotar Film production of a film by Liliana Cavani ; produced by Robert Gordon Edwards ; directed by Liliana Cavani ; screenplay, Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati ; story by Liliana Cavani, Barbara Alberti, Amadeo Pagani ; a Lotar Film production.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (47 cm x 37 cm)
Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Isa Miranda, Nino Bignamini, Marino Masé, Amedeo Amodio, Piero Vida, Geoffrey Copleston, Manfred Freiberger, Ugo Cardea, Hilda Gunther, Nora Ricci, Piero Mazzinghi, Kai S. Seefeld. DVD release of the 1974 motion picture. Special features: Women of the resistance = La donna nella resistenza / directed by Liliana Cavani (50 min. documentary from 1965, director interviews a variety of women who participated in the Italian resistance and survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II); Liliana Cavani (new interview with director Liliana Cavani about the making of the film). Insert features an essay by scholar Gaetana Marrone and an excerpt from a 1975 interview with Cavani.
Summary:
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
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