The Night Porter [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Night Porter [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Liliana Cavani Cast: Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
, Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling
, Philippe Leroy
Philippe Leroy
, Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
Liliana Cavani
The Night Porter [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Night Porter [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Liliana Cavani Cast: Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
, Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling
, Philippe Leroy
Philippe Leroy
, Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
Liliana Cavani

Blu-ray (Color / Wide Screen)

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Overview

Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' needs, from cold water to a bed-warming gigolo. Then Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) arrives at the hotel, on the arm of her husband, an American composer, and Max's past comes flooding back to him. It turns out Max was an S.S. officer at a Nazi concentration camp where Lucia was a beautiful young prisoner. She became, in effect, Max's sexual slave. Now, years later, their reunion shatters both of their lives. Lucia stays in Vienna after her husband travels on, in order to see Max, and they find themselves caught up in a renewal of their former sadomasochistic relationship. Max has an upcoming show trial for his war crimes. His former S.S. comrades have been carefully destroying documents and "filing away" witnesses to clear all their names, and, while Max tries to keep Lucia's existence a secret from them, they eventually find out about her. They consider her a threat, and they urge Max to turn her over to them. He quits his job, and he and Lucia hide out in his apartment, while his former friends keep watch. Liliana Cavani (Ripley's Game) co-wrote and directed this controversial film, Il Portiere di Notte, which she reportedly based partly on her own interviews with a Holocaust survivor.

Product Details

Release Date: 12/09/2014
UPC: 0715515132817
Original Release: 1974
Rating: R
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Language: English
Time: 1:58:00
Sales rank: 1,520

Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New interview with director Liliana Cavani; Women of the Resistance, a fifty-minute 1965 documentary by Cavani composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy, with an introduction by the filmmaker; PLUS: an essay by scholar Gaetana Marrone, author of The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani, and an excerpt from a 1975 interview with Cavani

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Dirk Bogarde Actor
Charlotte Rampling Actor
Philippe Leroy Actor
Gabriele Ferzetti Hans
Giuseppe Addobbati Stumm
Isa Miranda Countess Stein
Nino Bignamini Adolph
Amedeo Amodio Bert
Piero Vida Day Porter
Geoffrey Copleston Kurt
Manfred Freiberger Dobson
Ugo Cardea Mario
Hilda Gunther Greta
Nora Ricci The Neighbor
Piero Mazzinghi Concierge
Kai S. Seefeld Jacob
Carlo Mangano Actor
Claudio Steiner Dobson
Marino Masé Atherton
Manfred Freyberger Dobson
Luigi Antonio Guerra Actor
Daniele Paris Composer

Technical Credits
Liliana Cavani Director,Screenwriter
Robert Gordon Edwards Producer
Roberto Arcangeli Sound Effects
Michael Billingsley Sound Effects
Robert Rietty Sound Effects
Barbara Alberti Screenwriter
Amedeo Pagani Screenwriter
Joseph E. Levine Producer
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