The Night Porter

The Night Porter

  • Director: Liliana Cavani
  • Writer: Liliana Cavani,Italo Moscati,Barbara Alberti
  • Countries of origin: Italy, France
  • Language: English, German, Latin
  • Release date: October 1, 1974
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Nocni portir
  • "The Night Porter" is a feature film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Dirk Bogarde , The Legend and Philippe Leroy  . It premiered in France on April 3, 1974 .
    The film tells the story of a former Nazi officer’s teahouse Max in Vienna in 1957, who happened to meet his former concentration camp sex playmate Lucia in a restaurant, and the two gradually revived their relationship   .

    Details

    • Release date October 1, 1974
    • Filming locations Vienna, Austria
    • Production companies Lotar Film Productions, Les Productions Artistes Associés

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $633,298

    Movie reviews

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    • By Carson 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      I believe this love exists

      I watched the 1970s film "The Night Porter" by Italian female director Liliana Cavni at noon. The legendary famous European controversial erotic film, but the sex scene in it will not be more than any Hollywood love film, so I thought it was an abridged version.
      (Reminiscent of the domestic clean book "Jin Ping Mei", at every critical moment, there will be a "delete two hundred words here", leaving a string of ambiguous small squares, which makes people tickle. So my life ideal is One is...

    • By Cordie 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      love? But a sin.

      I admire those who see love in it.
      For me, this movie has nothing to do with love.
      I only saw the wild and cold side of human nature.

      The most shocking scene is that the woman danced topless for the Nazis in the concentration camp. She pleased the Nazis, so the Nazis gave her a gift, a box containing the heads of her relatives.
       
      This entire episode is silent, the colors are monotonous, the characters are expressionless, and it is not even clear what is in the box,...

    • By Rusty 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      Open the door at midnight

      A man's love for a woman is always a little violent; a
      woman's love for a man is always mixed with a little worship and gratitude.

      He guards the door of the luxury hotel at midnight, but he cannot guard his desires. In the countess, he is a victim of sex. In front of his little girl, he is a cruel and cunning executioner, licking her wounds and saying I love you every time a knife is cut in her heart. War makes many people crazy and makes more people desperate. That painful...

    • By Wayne 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      I haven't seen a movie like this for a long time.

      I went to the video store to rent discs, thinking about renting an erotic movie to satisfy a few hungry hearts in the dorm. Then I found one called "Venus Concentration Camp" among a bunch of film titles. Hearing the name felt very ambiguous, so let the boss find it out. The disc features a topless woman wearing a Nazi uniform hat. I remember seeing such a poster when I read a certain movie magazine before. At that time, I was immediately shocked and fascinated by that absolutely coquettish...

    • By Dasia 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      "Midnight Gatekeeper" "Fascist" "Stockholm Syndrome"

      In 1957, the former Nazi officer Max (Dirk Bogarde) went incognito as a midnight janitor in a Vienna hotel. One day, he meets Lucia (Charlotte Rampling), the wife of a famous conductor, and the past is overwhelming. It turned out that Lucia was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp. She was Max's sex slave and his lover at the time. Max had always been obsessed with her. Max reunited with Lucia while Lucia was out performing, and immediately took her to his apartment, and the two quickly...

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    • By Rosemary 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      French Region 2 DVD, female director Liliana Cavani's 1974 work, this film not only tells about sex, love and death, but also reveals the director's distrust of society, although the film does not use any soundtrack, it is also very Few lines. But this movie doesn't look boring. I think it's because of his constantly alternating recollections that keep the audience guessing about the relationship between the two. I didn't see the ending of the movie. It seems they were...

    • By Sammy 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      All the flashbacks are doomed to the final outcome. Looking at it, I suddenly remembered the last tango in...

    • By Erwin 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      Pretending to force a young woman like Jiechen to hold her up to the sky, I haven't seen it...

    • By Jarrod 2022-03-29 09:01:07

      Because of JAPAN's "The Night...

    • By Katheryn 2022-03-28 09:01:11

      The Stockholm Syndrome in the context of World War II, it is indeed a bold perspective to express the relationship between Nazi officers and persecuted women through SM, and the continuation of this morbid psychology after the war and the desperate pursuit of destruction all reflect the difficulty of the trauma of World War II. Healing, in the first half, it feels good to say something, especially the cross-editing of the opera and flashback, which reflects the director's artistic ability. As...

    Movie plot

    In Vienna in 1957, Lucia came to an opera hotel with her husband. She inadvertently recognized that the tea room at the service counter was actually the former Nazi concentration camp military doctor Max. Max also recognized that the other party was only 14 years old. "Female prisoner". Time has passed, and now Lucia is married to a famous American music conductor. This time, Lucia accompanied her husband to Vienna to perform the opera...
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    Creative background

    Director Liliana Cavani stated that the motivation for filming the film came from her investigation of two women survivors in former Nazi concentration camps. In the mid-1960s, when Cavani filmed documentaries such as "History of the Third Reich" and "Women in the Resistance Movement" for Italian television, he conducted a large number of investigations on the survivors of former Nazi concentration camps. The narrative shocked and...
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    Evaluation action

    "The Night Gatekeeper" is a Gothic horror film. There is no indication in the film that it wants to explore the truth about the Nazi concentration camps. On the contrary, the director uses the victims trapped in the concentration camps as the background of this creepy horror film. Just like a group of zombies, their role is to watch sodomy and silently participate in all kinds of sex scenes. The pornographic nature of the film, whether...
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    Movie quotes

    • Max: [describing Lucia] My little girl...

    • Max: I met her again. A little girl.

      Countess Stein: You mean, a little girl from then?

      [Max nods]

      Max: [clears his throat] I found her again. I found her again. And no one must touch her!

      Countess Stein: Who'd dream of touching her?

      [Max gestures with his hands in objection]

      Countess Stein: Oh, Max, be careful. Before she could testify against you, you should file her away.

      Max: Oh. Oh, no.

      Countess Stein: But...

      Max: No. I love her.

      Countess Stein: [shakes her head] What a madman.

      Max: She was my little girl.

      [close to tears]

      Max: She was very young.

      Countess Stein: And now she's not.

      Max: Yes. Yes, she - she's exactly the same - as she was for me.

      Countess Stein: Oh, Max.

      Max: As she was then!

      Countess Stein: I've never seen you so much in love.

      Max: [chocking up] I - I thought she was dead.

      Countess Stein: What a romantic story.

      Max: No. No, it's - not romantic.

      Countess Stein: No?

      Max: It's not romantic. It's a biblical story!

    • [Max has handcuffed Lucia to a long chain attached to the bathroom]

      Lucia: Why?

      Max: So they can't take you away.

      Lucia: Who?

      Max: Klaus... Bert, Hans.

      [Lucia giggles]

      Max: It's nothing to laugh about.

      Lucia: And if they come with a file?

      Max: Then you fight.

      [Lucia continues giggling]

      Max: [angrily] DON'T LAUGH!