The Night Porter

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The Night Porter

R,

1974,

1h 57m,

Drama

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68%

31 Reviews

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69%

5,000+ Ratings

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31 Reviews

69%

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5,000+ Ratings

A Nazi death-camp sadomasochist (Dirk Bogarde) and a woman (Charlotte Rampling) he abused meet again in 1957 Vienna.

Critics Consensus

The Night Porter's salaciousness gives its exploration of historical trauma a bitter aftertaste, but audiences seeking provocation are unlikely to forget the sting of this erotic drama.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Sep 26, 2023

The Night Porter is a doomsday vision of sex. The picture says that human sexuality is loathsome and that every once in a while the beast makes itself heard; its central mechanism is to use war guilt to account for sex guilt.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Nov 27, 2020

3/5

Perhaps there is something in its very crassness, horror and tastelessness that does at least jolt us towards an acknowledgment of pure evil.

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

Dec 10, 2014

3/5

At its best, the film layers Lucia's and Maximilian's flashbacks in such a way that that the lines between memory, fantasy, and nightmare get blurred.

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Wayne Harada

Honolulu Advertiser

Mar 17, 2023

Disturbingly tedious and unfortunately pretentious.

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Noah Berlatsky

Splice Today

Mar 9, 2023

The positions of torturer and victim slip around and into each other, and this is presented as part of the violence itself—a violence that continues in the mind and heart long after it ceases physically.

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Aug 30, 2022

B

Rampling, going deep into a performance of serene sexual self-annihilation, is more than enough reason to rent this.

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Hagrid P

May 18, 2017

Charlotte Rampling is memorable in this movie about a woman who happens to run into an ex-Nazi who had previously subjected her to a sado-masochistic relationship- leaving her confused and unstable in her romantic relationships. Some people dislike this film because it 'makes light out very sensitive subject matter' but those people obviously haven't tried to watch 'Salos- 120 Days of Sodom'...

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Kylo L

Feb 2, 2017

Charlotte Rampling is memorable in this movie about a woman who happens to run into an ex-Nazi who had previously subjected her to a sado-masochistic relationship- leaving her confused and unstable in her romantic relationships. Some people dislike this film because it 'makes light out very sensitive subject matter' but those people obviously haven't tried to watch 'Salos- 120 Days of Sodom'...

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Liliana Cavani

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Dirk Bogarde

Maximilian Theo Aldorfer

Charlotte Rampling

Lucia Atherton

Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu

Klaus

Gabriele Ferzetti

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Synopsis

A Nazi death-camp sadomasochist (Dirk Bogarde) and a woman (Charlotte Rampling) he abused meet again in 1957 Vienna.

Director: Liliana Cavani
Producer: Esa De Simone, Robert Gordon Edwards
Screenwriter: Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati
Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 1, 1974, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 25, 2017
Runtime: 1h 57m

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