IL PORTIERE DI NOTTE

THE NIGHT PORTER

By Liliana CAVANI

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Drama - Completed 1974


    • Year of production
    • 1974
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 118 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Liliana CAVANI
    • Writer(s)
    • Liliana CAVANI, Italo MOSCATI, Barbara ALBERTI, Amedeo PAGANI
    • Producer(s)
    • Esa DE SIMONE, Robert Gordon EDWARDS
    • Synopsis
    • Vienna, 1957. In a “fin-de-siècle” hotel Max, the night porter, recognizes one of the guests, the wife of a conductor, Lucia, as the teenage girl whom he had met fifteen years earlier in a Nazi concentration camp. Max had been an officer in the SS and had formed a sadomasochistic relationship with the girl, a mixture of tenderness and profound cruelty, characterized by a murky but deeply-felt complicity.