(aka "The Damned" or "Die Verdammten")
directed by Luchino Visconti
Italy 1969
| "1969's The Damned (La caduta degli dei) was director Luchino Visconti's most explosively controversial film to date. Set in the 1930s, the film zeroes in on a Krupp-like family of German munition manufacturers. Ever in pursuit of more millions to add to their already bulging coffers, the family plays along with the Nazis, descending into corruption, betrayal and murder all along the way. The stylized decadence depicted by Visconti was of such graphic intensity that the film was released in the U.S. with an X rating." |
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Theatrical Release: November 14th, 1969
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DVD Review: LUCE - Region 2 - PAL
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| Distribution | LUCE Region 2 - PAL | |
| Runtime | 2:30:00 | |
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1.33:1.00 Average Bitrate: 6.66 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s |
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| Audio | Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1) , Italian (Dolby Digital Mono) | |
| Subtitles | English, None | |
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LUCE's DVD of "The Damned" (aka La
Caduta degli Dei). The image ratio is, unfortunately, full screen. The transfer is not clean and
in some instances you can see digital artifacts. There's a definite
room for improvement (even VHS in UK was widescreen). There's only
Italian audio provided in mono and remixed in 5.1, and like with many
international pictures, it was dubbed in different languages, so there's
no original version. Some of the acting shows itself poorly with the
lip-syncing, but not tremendously.
Extras include 8-minute interview with cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi
in Italian and some text info about the film and the director.
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| Distribution | LUCE Region 2 - PAL | |
