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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC3297BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English, German Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1098.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2021]Description: 1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781681438795
1681438798

Other title:

German title: Götterdämmerung
Italian titile: Caduta degli dei

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .D36 2021

Production credits:

Director of photography, Armando Nannuzzi and Pasqualino De Santis; editor, Ruggiero Mastroianni ; original music, Maurice Jarre.

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley.Summary: The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning Marlene Dietrich-like drag in his breakthrough role)--descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all-consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti's luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family's downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00465 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050314845

Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

Wide screen.

New 2K digital restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna and Institut Lumiere ; alternate Italian-language soundtrack ; interview from 1970 with director Luchino Visconti about the film ; archival interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin and Charlotte Rampling ; Visconti On Set, a 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary ; new interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the sexual politics of the film ; trailer ; new English subtitles translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Rating: R; for violence, nudity and aberrant sexuality.

Blu-ray, wide screen (1.85:1) aspect ratio ; region 1; monaural ; requires Blu-ray player.

English or German dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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