Continuing to explore the theme of societal decay that he addressed in earlier films such as, The Leopard and Rocco And His Brothers, director Visconti's, The Damned, describes the collapse of a wealthy German industrialist family during the period leading up to World War II. Capitalizing on the build up of the armed forces in Germany, the Essenbeck family has started to do business with the Nazi Party. As Germany spirals towards facism, members of the Essenbeck family are divided in their political sympathies. When patriarch, Baron Joachim von Essenbeck, is murdered, Herbert Thalmann, the firm's vice president and a fervent anti-Nazi, is accused of the crime. Visconti portrays the Night of the Long Knives, during which Hitler decimated his political opponents, as an extended orgy. SS officers and their minions drink champagne, while their less ideologically committed colleagues are massacred.
"Storia della famiglia tedesca degli Essenbeck, industriali metallurgici, nel biennio 1933-34, dall'incendio del Reichstag alla "notte dei lunghi coltelli" in cui le SS fecero strage delle SA. (Morandini)."@it
"The degradation of a great family during the reign of the Third Reich."
"I drammatici giorni dell'ascesa del nazismo, tra l'incendio del Reichstag, la notte dei lunghi coltelli e il plebiscito nella Saar raccontati attraverso le vicende di una potente famiglia di industriali tedeschi dilaniata dalla corruzione e dalla lotta per il potere. (Mereghetti)."@it
"The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night the long knives" and the rise of Nazism."
"Sumario: Películas de las fiestas realizadas por los organismos de seguridad, dando paso a una matanza de la SS que liquidó a su similar SA, también conocido estos asesinatos como la noche de los cuchillos largos."
"The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism."
"L'omicidio di un industriale dell'acciaio della Germania nazista scopre gli intrighi e le depravazioni di una famiglia dell'alta società."
"I drammatici giorni dell'ascesa del nazismo, tra l'incendio del Reichstag (27 febbraio 1933), la notte dei lunghi coltelli (30 giugno 1934) e il plebiscito nella Saar (gennaio 1935) raccontati attraverso le vicende di una potente famiglia di industriali tedeschi dilaniata dalla corruzione e dalla lotta per il potere. (Mereghetti)."@it
"Continuing to explore the theme of societal decay that he addressed in earlier films such as, The Leopard and Rocco And His Brothers, director Visconti's, The Damned, describes the collapse of a wealthy German industrialist family during the period leading up to World War II. Capitalizing on the build up of the armed forces in Germany, the Essenbeck family has started to do business with the Nazi Party. As Germany spirals towards facism, members of the Essenbeck family are divided in their political sympathies. When patriarch, Baron Joachim von Essenbeck, is murdered, Herbert Thalmann, the firm's vice president and a fervent anti-Nazi, is accused of the crime. Visconti portrays the Night of the Long Knives, during which Hitler decimated his political opponents, as an extended orgy. SS officers and their minions drink champagne, while their less ideologically committed colleagues are massacred."@en
"Drame social décrivant la déchéance morale et physique d'une ancienne famille aristocratique qui, dans l'Allemagne de 1933-34, prend le contrôle de l'insutrie des armements alors que le pays glisse dans le nazisme."
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