FRI APRIL 8, 2022 7:30 PM THE DAMNED $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Rare 35mm print, courtesy of the UCLA Film & TV Archive Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM Director Luchino Visconti’s astounding, sumptuous chronicle of the fall of the German Von Essenbeck dynasty during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. Scheming Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), scion of the dying aristocratic family, goads husband Frederick (Dirk Bogarde) to commit all manner of heinous acts to usurp control of the clan’s munitions factories. As the brutally repressive forces of Nazism bloom into full flower, a series of personal betrayals plagues their immediate relatives as well as all of their acquaintances, culminating in the first of Hitler’s purges, the Night of the Long Knives. Sophie and Frederick’s corrupt empire grows by nefarious means, but they don’t count on Sophie’s mentally deranged, pedophile son Martin (Helmut Berger), who surpasses them all in not only decadence and depravity but also in his bottomless capacity for vindictive evil. Maurice Jarre supplies one of his most memorable, operatic scores. With Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan, Helmut Griem and Umberto Orsini. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Brothers