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Night Porter (The)

Country: Italy, Language: English, 118 mins

Original Title

Il Portiere di Notte
  • Director: Liliana Cavani
  • Writer: Barbara Alberti; Liliana Cavani
  • Producer: Esa De Simone; Robert Gordon Edwards

CGiii Comment

Matter-of-fact cruelty.

Wholly chilling.

Controlled genius - disturbing beyond human recognition.

A macabre masterwork.

Not pleasant viewing...but, essential.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

Cast & Characters

Dirk Bogarde as Maximilian Theo Aldorfer;
Charlotte Rampling as Lucia Atherton;
Philippe Leroy as Klaus;
Gabriele Ferzetti as Hans;
Giuseppe Addobbati as Stumm;
Isa Miranda as Countess Stein;
Nino Bignamini as Adolph;
Marino Mase as Atherton;
Amedeo Amodio as Bert;
Piero Vida as Day Porter;
Geoffrey Copleston as Kurt;
Manfred Freyberger as Dobson;
Ugo Cardea as Mario;
Hilda Gunther as Greta;
Nora Ricci as The Neighbor