Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

The night porter / Janus Films ; Joseph E. Levine presents for Ital Noleggio Cinematografico S.p.A. ; the Robert Gordon Edwards, Esa De Simone, Lotar Film production of a film by Liliana Cavani ; produced by Robert Gordon Edwards ; directed by Liliana Cavani ; screenplay, Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati ; story by Liliana Cavani, Barbara Alberti, Amadeo Pagani ; a Lotar Film production.

Edition:

DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 59

Criterion collection ; 59.

Subjects:

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Drama.

Nazi concentration camp guards -- Sexual behavior -- Drama.

Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Sexual behavior -- Drama.

Holocaust survivors -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Sadomasochism -- Drama.

Vienna (Austria) -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Cavani, Liliana, film director, screenwriter.

Levine, Joseph E., presenter.

Edwards, Robert Gordon, film producer.

De Simone, Esa, film producer.

Moscati, Italo, screenwriter.

Alberti, Barbara, screenwriter.

Pagani, Amedeo, screenwriter.

Bogarde, Dirk, 1921-1999, actor.

Rampling, Charlotte, 1946- actor.

Leroy, Philippe, 1930- actor.

Ferzetti, Gabriele, 1925-2015, actor.

Addobbati, Giuseppe, 1909-1986, actor.

Miranda, Isa, 1905-1982, actor.

Bignamini, Nino, actor.

Masé, Marino, 1939-2022 actor.

Amodio, Amedeo, actor.

Vida, Piero, actor.

Copleston, Geoffrey, 1921- actor.

Freyberger, Manfred, 1930-1980, actor.

Cardea, Ugo, actor.

Gunther, Hilda, actor.

Ricci, Nora, actor.

Mazzinghi, Piero, actor.

Seefeld, Kai S., actor.

Arcalli, Franco, film editor.

Contini, Alfio, director of photography.

Paris, Daniele, composer (expression), conductor.

Simon, Jean Marie, 1936-1991, art director.

Azzini, Nedo, art director.

Tosi, Piero, costume designer.

Marrone, Gaetana, writer of supplementary textual content.

Ital Noleggio Cinematografico, production company.

Lotar Film, production company.

Janus Films, film distributor.

Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.

Other Title:

Donna nella resistenza.

Women of the resistance.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974.

Special features: Women of the resistance = La donna nella resistenza / directed by Liliana Cavani (50 min. documentary from 1965, director interviews a variety of women who participated in the Italian resistance and survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II); Liliana Cavani (new interview with director Liliana Cavani about the making of the film). Insert features an essay by scholar Gaetana Marrone and an excerpt from a 1975 interview with Cavani.

Editor, Franco Arcalli ; director of photography, Alfio Contini ; music composed and conducted by Daniele Paris ; art direction, Jean Marie Simon, Nedo Azzini ; costumes designed by Piero Tosi.

Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Isa Miranda, Nino Bignamini, Marino Masé, Amedeo Amodio, Piero Vida, Geoffrey Copleston, Manfred Freiberger, Ugo Cardea, Hilda Gunther, Nora Ricci, Piero Mazzinghi, Kai S. Seefeld.

DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.

English dialogue with optional SDH English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.

ISBN:

9781604659290

1604659297

Publisher Number:

CC2422D

Other Number:

894261168

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

956211

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Night po