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The Damned

Year:

1969

Duration:

156 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Luchino Visconti

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations

Details

Country: Italy

Release Date: 1969-12-18

Filming Locations: Attersee, Upper Austria, Austria

Earnings

Gross: ITL 102,300,000 (Italy) ( 1980)

Cast

Actor

Character

Ingrid Thulin

The Damned

Dirk Bogarde

Friedrich Bruckmann

Helmut Griem

Aschenbach

Helmut Berger

Martin Von Essenbeck

Renaud Verley

Günther Von Essenbeck

Umberto Orsini

Herbert Thallman

Reinhard Kolldehoff

Baron Konstantin Von Essenbeck (as René Koldehoff)

Albrecht Schoenhals

Baron Joachim Von Essenbeck (as Albrecht Schönhals)

Florinda Bolkan

Olga

Nora Ricci

Governess

Charlotte Rampling

Elisabeth Thallman

Irina Wanka

Lisa Keller

Karin Mittendorf

Thilde Thallman

Valentina Ricci

Erika Thalman

Wolfgang Hillinger

Janek

Bill Vanders

Chief of Police

Howard Nelson Rubien

Dean of the University (as H. Nelson Rubien)

Werner Hasselmann

Gestapo Officer

Peter Dane

Steelmill Clerk

Mark Salvage

Police Inspector

Karl-Otto Alberty

1st Officer Wehrmacht (as Karl Otto Alberty)

John Frederick

2nd Officer Wehrmacht

Richard Beach

3rd Officer Wehrmacht

Klaus Höhne

1st S.A. Officer (as Claus Höhne)

Ernst Kuhr

2nd S.A. Officer

Peter Brandt

3rd S.A. Officer

Wolfgang Ehrlich

S.A. Militiaman

Ester Carloni

1st Maid (as Esterina Carloni)

Antonietta Fiorito

2nd Maid (as Antonietta Fiorita)

Jessica Dublin

Nurse

Piero Morgia

Young man in shirt-sleeves

Karl Hass

Judith Burnett

Helga (uncredited)

Al Cliver

SS Soldier (uncredited)

Giada Desideri

Innkeeper (uncredited)

Michele Scalera

Innkeeper (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite film. He called it "perhaps the greatest film, the film that I think means as much to the history of film as Shakespeare to the history of theater."

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Footage shot during the "Night of the Long Knives" sequence but never shown previously in the United States is restored in the 2004 DVD release. It is in subtitled German and expands the running time to 156 minutes.

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Italian censorship visa # 54737 delivered on 11-10-1969.

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Goofs

The film opens on the night of the Reichstag Fire (27 February 1933). However, later that night (or early the next morning) the police inspector investigating the murder of Joachim, in dictating a report to a secretary, gives the date as 18 February 1933.

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The film is set between 1933-1934, yet most of the insignia and badges, shown worn on the German military and Nazi Party uniforms, were not invented until after 1938.

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Throughout the film, SS-Captain Aschenbach is referred to as a "Hauptsturmfuhrer". However, prior to 1934 (when the film is set) the SS referred to the rank of Captain as "Sturmhauptfuhrer".

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Quotes

Martin Von Essenbeck: Lisa. Look what I've brought you. Do you like this little horse?

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Martin Von Essenbeck: You give him everything, everything that belongs to me - my factory, my money, my house, brick-by-brick! Even my name and your love! You're the worst, so it's you I hate! You can't imagine the evil I wish you!

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Sophie Von Essenbeck: Nothing is impossible in this country.

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