Il portiere di notte (1974)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Liliana Cavani

Writers:

Barbara Alberti (story)
Liliana Cavani (screenplay)

Release Date:

1 October 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The Most Controversial Picture of Our Time!

Plot:

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel...

Plot Keywords:

Porter | Hotel | Concentration Camp | Vienna | Nazi

Cast

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

Also Known As:

The Night Porter (USA)

Runtime:

118 min | Argentina:116 min | Italy:115 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Germany:16 (re-rating) (2006) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Japan:R-18 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 (1975) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | UK:X (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico

Trivia:

According to an interview given by Charlotte Rampling on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air", the scene where she dances and sings topless in a Nazi outfit was the first scene filmed.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)

Soundtrack:

Sonata 1950

Darkly intense insight into a polical stained amour fou.

In my opinion The Night Porter, Liliana Cavani's most original and complex film, is the most intense entry in Italy's nazi/sex-cycle of the seventies. In it's difficult, nearly philosophical structure the film comments on the twisted system of character-corruption and mistrust the German Fascism is based on. If you can read German, you might be interested in my book on this topic: Marcus Stiglegger: Sadiconazista. Faschismus und Sexualitaet im Film. St. Augustin: Gardez! Verlag 1999, 256 Seiten, 40 Fotos.