(SDRSP) Vintage Bonus Edition: Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter) 1974 (dir. Liliana Cavani) Rated 18 - (Masterpiece)

An Italian erotic psychological drama film. Directed and co-written by Liliana Cavani.

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Synopsis:

Max is a former concentration camp doctor who now works as a hotel porter at night. He lives alone in a small flat but in his spare time he meets with other former Nazis officers who spend their time collecting evidence against them from military archives and burning it.





The story of a former SS officer and bogus doctor in a concentration camp who stumbles across one of his former victims. It is 1957, Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer who had posed as a doctor in order to take sensational photographs in concentration camps, and Lucia Atherton, a Holocaust survivor, had an ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship. Flashbacks show Max tormenting Lucia, but also acting as her protector.

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