The Damned (#1098) USED Batman One of the earliest sex-gialli

One of the earliest sex-gialli

David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme – A documentary programme featuring interviews with Cronenberg

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1973 / 108min (uncut) and 90min (TCHOE) / 1

The Damned (#1098) USED Batman One of the earliest sex-gialliThe most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazisms total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitlers ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associatesincluding the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger,