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THE NIGHT PORTER

By Liliana CAVANI

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Drama - Completed 1974

- Year of production
- 1974
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Liliana CAVANI
- Writer(s)
- Liliana CAVANI, Italo MOSCATI, Barbara ALBERTI, Amedeo PAGANI
- Cast
- Dirk BOGARDE, Charlotte RAMPLING, Philippe LEROY, Gabriele FERZETTI, Giuseppe ADDOBBATI, Isa MIRANDA
- Producer(s)
- Esa DE SIMONE, Robert Gordon EDWARDS
- Synopsis
- Vienna, 1957. In a “fin-de-siècle” hotel Max, the night porter, recognizes one of the guests, the wife of a conductor, Lucia, as the teenage girl whom he had met fifteen years earlier in a Nazi concentration camp. Max had been an officer in the SS and had formed a sadomasochistic relationship with the girl, a mixture of tenderness and profound cruelty, characterized by a murky but deeply-felt complicity.