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The Night Porter (DVD, 1999, Criterion Collection)

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Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by theAmerican actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former "relationship"--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. THE NIGHT PORTER is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, THE NIGHT PORTER is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch.

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UPC0037429145227

eBay Product ID (ePID)3111253

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ActorCharlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde

RatingR

EditionCriterion Collection

Movie/TV TitleNight Porter

DirectorLiliana Cavani

FormatDVD

Release Year1999

GenreDrama

Additional Product Features

Region CodeRegion 1

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureItaly

Display FormatCriterion Collection

Leading RoleCharlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde

Release Date19991116

Film CountryItaly

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by a_sharper_image
23 Jul, 2018
Disappointed with Criterion Collection version.
After reading a previous review I was careful to get the uncensored version of this classic film. Unfortunately, that's about all I got. The Criterion Collection supposedly 'focuses on licensing important classic and contemporary films and selling them to film aficionados. Criterion is noted for helping to standardize a number of new ideas, such as the letterbox format for widescreen films, adding bonus features, commentary tracks, doing film restoration , and releasing special editions for home video.' There was NONE of this except that it's a widescreen version. Absolutely NO special features, commentary, perspective, nothing. The 'restoration' wasn't even that great. A lot of noise at start of film, and then maybe I just got used to it and didn't notice. This is the 2nd time I've been disappointed with a Criterion film, surely not a guarantee of superior quality. A shame.
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by rikkstarr
01 Mar, 2017
Like I remember
It was a gift to My Wife Gitane: "It had been 27 years since I last saw it, didn't remember much except that it was intense. I wanted My Husband Rikk to see it. It was just as I remembered. Great price too!
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by angrymayor
11 May, 2016
strange but true
A rather interesting tale of how bizarre the Nazis were mixed in with sadistic and sometimes brutal sex--great acting as Charlotte Rampling remains one of my favorites
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by holdingu_45
20 May, 2023
Worth a look.
Kinky, but entertaining.
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by men-178249
23 Jan, 2024
best movie
great price
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by jovano38
25 Jul, 2022
Controversial masterpiece
Awesome movie
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