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Dominican Rep. The Damned
- Original title
- La caduta degli Dei
- Year
- 1969
- Running time
- 164 min.
- Country
Italy- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Dirk Bogarde
Ingrid Thulin
Helmut Griem
Helmut Berger
Renaud Verley
Umberto Orsini
Reinhard Kolldehoff- Albrecht Schönhals
Florinda Bolkan- Nora Ricci
Charlotte Rampling- Irina Vanka
- Karin Mittendorf
- Valentina Ricci
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Italy-Germany-Switzerland;
- Genre
- Drama | Nazism. 1930s
- Movie Groups
- The German Trilogy
- Synopsis
- A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a successor sympathetic to their cause. But his choice sets off a round of in-fighting as his children battle for control of the company. His young grandson eventually takes charge, but his drug addiction wreaks havoc on his family when he brutally rapes his mother and turns her into an addict. By the end of the film, the Nazis, including the party members in the family, are on the verge of taking over Europe.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1969: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay1969: Golden Globes: Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer - Male (Helmut Berger)1969: New York Film Critics Circle: 4 Nominations, including Best Film1969: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Actress.1969: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.
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- 50 My Favorite Italian Movies (40)
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