The Night Porter (1974)

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The Night Porter (1974)

In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover ( Dirk Bogarde) 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. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Disc Features
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interviews with director Liliana Cavani and screenwriters Barbara Alberti and Amedeo Pagani
Women of the Resistance, a fifty-minute 1965 documentary by Cavani, composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy, with an intro by the filmmaker
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by scholar Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, author of The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani

http://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter