Screening: The Night Porter

This event is part of the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts' Spring 2017 Foreign Film Series A View from A Broad

The Night Porter
(Italy, 1974, 118 min.)
In ENGLISH

Directed by Liliana Cavani
Written by Liliana Cavani and Italo Moscati
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling and Philippe Leroy

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.

Screening of the new 2k digital restoration courtesy of The Criterion Collection.

Introduced by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU).

In ENGLISH.