The Night Porter

Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling star in Liliana Cavani’s study of sexual power and degradation. He is an ex-SS concentration camp officer, she an inmate as a child. They meet again in 1957 when she checks into the Viennese hotel where he is hiding out as a night porter and for very different reasons, they resume the relationship they had in the camp., Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship., Grim drama about the sadomasochistic relationship between an ex-Nazi and the woman he used to sexually abuse in a concentration camp. The night porter in a luxury hotel conceals his past as a sadistic SS officer during the war, while at the same time catering to the jaded tastes of some erstwhile colleagues. But the unexpected arrival of a former prisoner who became his lover makes the other Nazis fearful of exposure., A former SS officer and a concentration-camp survivor renew their affair in postwar Vienna., Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling as a former SS officer and a concentration-camp survivor who renew their affair in postwar Vienna. Klaus: Philippe Leroy. Hans: Gabriele Ferzetti. Stumm: Giuseppe Addobbati., The psychology of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi storm trooper and the concentration camp prisoner he loved provides the basis of this provocative, at times sexually and violently graphic drama. The story is set in the late ’50s at a Viennese hotel that is owned by and plays host to former Nazis who get their kicks at the sadistic hands of the hotel porter, the ex-trooper. Most of them are facing trials for their war crimes, and all of them have taken care to get rid of any possible witnesses to their atrocities. The trooper too feels safe. His illusion is shattered when a woman and her husband check into the hotel and he recognizes her as the woman with whom he had a very kinky relationship in the concentration camp. They soon rekindle their painful relationship and episodes from their past and present are graphically depicted. They remain heedless of the attempts of the other guests to stop their twisted affair.