Frederick Bruckmann
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Plot. In Germany in early 1933, the Essenbecks are a wealthy and powerful industrialist family who have, reluctantly, begun doing business with the newly-elected Nazi government.
The Damned: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger. The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
The Damned. The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism’s total corruption of the soul.
Apr 17, 2021 · Luchino Visconti’s La caduta degli dei [ Götterdämmerung] ( The Damned, 1969) is such an outrageously excessive and daring film that one wonders, in retrospect, how Visconti got away with it.
Luchino Visconti's subversive film The Damned depicts National Socialism in a microcosm; here in the form of the wealthy von Essenbeck family during the rise of the Nazi's in 1930's Germany. The family at the centre is used as a mirror to a nation in moral decline; a time where morality plays second fiddle to political power.
Joachim von Essenbeck, a powerful German industrialist, celebrates his birthday in February 1933. The party is first disrupted by a transvestite performance by his grandson Martin, and then by the news that the Reichstag has been burned. A power struggle over control of the von Essenbeck steelworks develops among Konstantin, Joachim's nephew;
A steel-magnate baroness (Ingrid Thulin), her lover (Dirk Bogarde) and her son (Helmut Berger) embody Nazi depravity.
