The damned Gotterdammerung
2021
Blu-ray
"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. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning Marlene Dietrich-like drag in his breakthrough role)--descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all-consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti's luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family's downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation"--Container
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781681438795
- 1681438798
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm).
- 4 3/4 in
- stamping
- polychrome
- color
- auditory captions
- digital
- optical
- mono
- LPCM
- videodisc
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title:
- Gotterdammerung
- Italian titile: Caduta degli dei
- Luchino Visconti's The damned
Notes:
- Title and credits from screen
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1969
- Wide screen
- Features: New 2K digital restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna and Institut Lumiere ; alternate Italian-language soundtrack ; interview from 1970 with director Luchino Visconti about the film ; archival interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin and Charlotte Rampling ; Visconti On Set, a 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary ; new interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the sexual politics of the film ; trailer ; new English subtitles translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Directors of photography, Armando Nannuzzi and Pasqualino De Santis; music, Maurice Jarre ; editor, Ruggero Mastroianni
- Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Rene Kolldehoff, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan, Albrecht Schonhals
- English / German audio with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
- System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players.
- Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; LPCM monaural
- English / German audio with optional English subtitles, or, Italian audio with optional English subtitles
LCCN: be2021014980
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC3297BD
- 1098
Control Number: 3091062
UPC:
- 715515264419
- 715515264419
Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection ; 1098.
- The Criterion collection
- The Criterion collection ; 1098
Subjects:
- Dysfunctional families -- Germany -- Drama.
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933 -- Drama.
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- Drama.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Badalucco, Nicola, screenwriter.
- Berger, Helmut, 1944-2023, actor.
- Bogarde, Dirk, 1921-1999, actor.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- De Santis, Pasqualino, director of photography.
- Eichberg-Film GmbH, production company.
- Griem, Helmut, actor.
- Haggiag, Ever, film producer.
- Italnoleggio cinematografico, production company.
- Jarre, Maurice, composer (expression)
- Levy, Alfred, film producer.
- Mastroianni, Ruggero, editor of moving image work.
- Medioli, Enrico, screenwriter.
- Nannuzzi, Armando, 1925-2001, director of photography.
- Pegaso Cinematografica, production company.
- Praesidens (Firm), production company.
- Rampling, Charlotte, 1946- actor.
- Thulin, Ingrid, actor.
- Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976, film director, screenwriter.
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, distributor.