DVD
The night porter = Il portiere di notte
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Giuseppe Addobbati, Amedeo Amodio, Nino Bignamini, Ugo Cardea.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Summary
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new interview with director Liliana Cavani ; Women of the resistance, a fifty-minute documentary by Cavani composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy, with an introduction by the filmmaker.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors > Drama.
- Nazi concentration camp guards > Drama.
- Nazi concentration camp guards > Sexual behavior > Drama.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates > Drama.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates > Sexual behavior > Drama.
- Sadomasochism > Drama.
- Vienna (Austria) > Drama.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel > Drama.