The Night Porter

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The Night Porter ★★ Il Portiere de Notte 1974 (R)

Max, an ex-SS concentration camp officer, unexpectedly meets his former lover-victim at the Viennese hotel where he works as the night porter. After they get reacquainted, the couple must hide from the porter's ex-Nazi friends who want the women dead because they fear she will disclose their past. A sado-masochistic voyage not for the faint-hearted. 115m/C VHS, DVD . IT Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Phillippe LeRoy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Isa Miranda; D: Liliana Cavani; W: Liliana Cavani; C: Alfio Contini; M: Daniele Paris.

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