At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Liliana Cavani, with Gabriele Ferzetti, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Isa Miranda, Dirk Bogarde. Digitally restored copy.
Vienna, 1957. In a “fin-de-siècle” hotel, Max, the night porter, recognizes one of the guests. He had met Lucia, the wife of a conductor, as a teenage girl fifteen years earlier in a Nazi concentration camp. Max had been an officer in the SS and had formed a sadomasochistic relationship with the girl, a mixture of tenderness and profound cruelty, characterized by a murky but deeply-felt complicity. Lucia too has recognized Max and, fatally, the relationship between the two of them, between victim and tormenter, is formed again.
In Italian, with Hebrew subtitles.
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Sunday, October 13, 2019, at 20:30
Haifa Cinematheque
Shderot HaNassì 142 – Haifa