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The Night Porter

Original title: Il portiere di notte
  • 19741974
  • RR
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
14K
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Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde in The Night Porter (1974)
Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a night porter in a Vienna hotel in the 1950's. When beautiful Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) checks in, they recognise each other from a terrible past; Max was an SS officer in a Nazi concentration camp who had abused and tortured then teenage Lucia, a prisoner. Lucia is travelling with her husband, an orchestra conductor and when he leaves to continue his tour, Lucia stays behind as she and Max find themselves compelled to renew their former, intense, sadomasochistic relationship. Max is reluctant member of a group of former SS who are ruthlessly covering up their pasts. They soon consider Lucia a threat and urge Max to hand her over. He refuses and hides our with Lucia, while his former comrades enact their threats.
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A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associate... Read allA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
IMDb RATING
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14K
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    • Liliana Cavani
  • Writers
    • Liliana Cavani(screenplay)
    • Italo Moscati(screenplay)
    • Barbara Alberti(collaborator on the screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dirk Bogarde
    • Charlotte Rampling
    • Philippe Leroy
    • Liliana Cavani
  • Writers
    • Liliana Cavani(screenplay)
    • Italo Moscati(screenplay)
    • Barbara Alberti(collaborator on the screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dirk Bogarde
    • Charlotte Rampling
    • Philippe Leroy
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    • 103User reviews
    • 93Critic reviews
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    Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    • Max
    Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling
    • Lucia
    Philippe Leroy
    Philippe Leroy
    • Klaus
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    • Hans
    Giuseppe Addobbati
    Giuseppe Addobbati
    • Stumm
    Isa Miranda
    Isa Miranda
    • Countess Stein
    Nino Bignamini
    Nino Bignamini
    • Adolph
    Marino Masé
    Marino Masé
    • Atherton
    • (as Marino Mase')
    Amedeo Amodio
    • Bert
    Piero Vida
    Piero Vida
    • Day Porter
    Geoffrey Copleston
    • Kurt
    Manfred Freyberger
    • Dobson
    • (as Manfred Freiberger)
    Ugo Cardea
    • Mario
    Hilda Gunther
    • Greta
    Nora Ricci
    Nora Ricci
    • The Neighbor
    Piero Mazzinghi
    • Concierge
    Kai-Siegfried Seefeld
    • Jacob
    • (as Kai S. Seefeld)
    Luigi Antonio Guerra
    • Bit role
    • (uncredited)
      • Liliana Cavani
    • Writers
      • Liliana Cavani(screenplay) (story)
      • Italo Moscati(screenplay)
      • Barbara Alberti(collaborator on the screenplay) (story)
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    • Trivia
      Sir Dirk Bogarde considered retiring from acting after making this movie, which he found to be a draining experience.
    • Goofs
      In the flashbacks, Max is wearing the War Merit Cross First Class with Swords upside down on his SS uniform.
    • Quotes

      Hans: I'm only here to ask you some questions on behalf of myself and the others, and to have a look at you. Look, I could have come at another time to see him too, but, I don't need to speak to him. I don't need to speak to him... in front of you. Useless. With this business of the trial, he's... become too diffident.

      Lucia: He's right.

      Hans: What do you mean?

      Lucia: Because then for the first time he saw you all clearly. Nothing's changed, has it?

      Hans: You're wrong. We've all had our trials. Now we are cured and live in peace with ourselves.

      Lucia: There's no cure.

      Hans: It is you who are ill. Otherwise, you wouldn't be with somebody who made you...

      Lucia: That's my affair.

      Hans: Very well. But nevertheless, your mind is disturbed. That's why you're here, fishing up the past.

      Lucia: Max is more than just the past.

      [Lucia crawls under a table]

      Hans: Listen. Why don't you go to the police? If you want to, I'll take you. Hm?

      Lucia: Dr. Fogler, I remember you so well. You gave a lot of orders.

      Hans: Then you can't have forgotten that your Max was an obedient Sturmscharführer. Remember?

      Lucia: I don't remember.

      Hans: I certainly can't oblige you to remember if you don't want to.

      [clears his throat]

      Hans: I'm only here to ask you to testify, to find out... if the situation in which you find yourself is of your own choice.

      Lucia: I'm all right here.

      Hans: Yes. You both want to live in peace, right? One lives in peace... when one is in harmony with one's close friends, when one respects an agreement. Tell Max that. We could have denounced him to the police for the murder of Mario. But we didn't. Max is ill. He mustn't be too far away from us! He's locked you up here. We could go to the police about that, too, no?

      Lucia: I'm here of my own free will. This chain is because of you, so none of you can take me away.

      Hans: If we wanted to carry you off, would this chain stop us? You poor fool. A chain can be cut. None of us is thinking of violence.

      Lucia: Hmm, I know how your, your witnesses end up. Max told me.

      [Lucia crawls out from under the table, away from Hans]

      Hans: Max doesn't know what he's saying or doing. His mind is disordered.

      Lucia: [crawling into the bathroom] Get out. Go away. Go away!

      [slams the door]

      Hans: If you change your mind, if the chain grows heavy... call me.

    • Connections
      Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      Don Juan
      (uncredited)

      Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck

    User reviews103

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    7/10
    Bleak
    This is quite dark. If you are seeking material that can be described as "happy" or "light", you will not find it here. I didn't know anyone in this prior to viewing. This deals with Max, the night porter of the title, who has tried to put his past in the SS behind him. One night, he spots a woman, Lucia, and they both recognize each other... she was one of the concentration camp prisoners, and the two had a specific relationship with one another. The plot is captivating. This is deliberately paced, and those who have short attention spans, and/or wish for a lot of developments in a feature are not the intended audience for this. I found the behavior of all of the characters chillingly psychologically accurate, and this definitely takes a long, hard, unflinching and uncompromising look at human nature and the mind, and not everyone is going to like the observations. The acting is excellent. All of the leads disappear into their roles. They are all well-cast, too, talent as well as physical types. I don't know if anything similar to this has truly happened, but I can imagine it, and this does pay respect to the historical events. The editing mixes flashbacks and the present effectively. This has disturbing content, including violence, sexuality that is not graphic and explicit nudity. None of it is gratuitous. The DVD has credits and posters, and while the print starts out looking shabby, it turns out to be perfectly fine. I recommend this to anyone who believes they can handle it, and is mature enough, from reading this review. 7/10
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      • October 1, 1974 (United States)
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      • Vienna, Austria
    • Production companies
      • Lotar Film Productions
      • Les Productions Artistes Associés
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    • 1 hour 58 minutes
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