In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Direction
Visconti's tracking shots through the Essenbeck mansion
Costume
Charlotte Flemming's collapsing Weimar glamour
Acting
Helmut Berger's Marlene drag scene, devastating
Director
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde
Frederick Bruckmann
Ingrid Thulin
Sophie Von Essenbeck
Helmut Griem
Aschenbach
Helmut Berger
Martin Von Essenbeck
Renaud Verley
Günther Von Essenbeck
Umberto Orsini
Herbert Thallman
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Konstantin von Essenbeck
Albrecht Schoenhals
Baron Joachim Von Essenbeck
Florinda Bolkan
Olga
Nora Ricci
Governess
Charlotte Rampling
Elisabeth Thallman
Irina Wanka
Lisa Keller
Wolfgang Hillinger
Janek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Visconti filmed the Night of Long Knives orgy scene in one continuous 12-minute take; the actors were genuinely exhausted.
Released months after 1968's student protests, critics read it as both fascism warning AND bourgeois self-critique from an aristocratic director.
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