
The Night Porter
The Most Controversial Picture of Our Time!
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Release Date
4/3/1974Runtime
118 minsOverview
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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ItalianBudget
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A haunting, psychologically dense film about the inescapable grip of trauma and perverse attachment, where history literally hunts the present. It's morally and emotionally vertiginous, a film that provokes discomfort as its own artistic purpose.
Mood
Dread-soakedUnsettlingMelancholicClaustrophobic
Themes
MemoryPowerObsessionRedemption
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
FormalistHigh-contrast
Structure
Framed flashback
Heads up
Sexual contentSexual violenceGraphic violence
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