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The Night Porter ()

Il portiere di notte (original title)
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A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
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Max [Maximilian Theo Aldorfer]
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Lucia
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Klaus
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Hans
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Stumm
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Countess Stein
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Adolph
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Atherton (as Marino Mase')
Amedeo Amodio ...
Bert
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Day Porter
Geoffrey Copleston ...
Kurt
Manfred Freyberger ...
Dobson (as Manfred Freiberger)
Ugo Cardea ...
Mario
Hilda Gunther ...
Greta
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The Neighbor
Piero Mazzinghi ...
Concierge
Kai-Siegfried Seefeld ...
Jacob (as Kai S. Seefeld)
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Opera Audience (uncredited)
Luigi Antonio Guerra ...
Bit role (uncredited)
Carlo Mangano ...
Porter (uncredited)

Directed by

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Liliana Cavani

Written by

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Liliana Cavani ... (screenplay) &
Italo Moscati ... (screenplay)
 
Barbara Alberti ... (collaborator on the screenplay) &
Amedeo Pagani ... (collaborator on the screenplay)
 
Liliana Cavani ... (story) &
Barbara Alberti ... (story) &
Amedeo Pagani ... (story)
 
Charlotte Rampling ... (collaboration) (uncredited)
 
Dirk Bogarde ... (collaboration) (uncredited)
 
Anthony Forwood ... (collaboration) (uncredited)

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Esa De Simone ... production
Robert Gordon Edwards ... production
Joseph E. Levine ... executive producer (uncredited)
Paola Tallarigo ... producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Daniele Paris

Cinematography by

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Alfio Contini ... director of photography

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Franco Arcalli

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Ernesto Novelli ... color supervisor
Elvio Sordoni ... assistant: Mr. Arcalli
Edoardo Romani ... first assistant editor (uncredited)

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Nedo Azzini
Jean Marie Simon

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Osvaldo Desideri

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Piero Tosi ... (costumes designed by)

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Iole Cecchini ... hairdressing (as Jole Cecchin) / makeup artist (as Jole Cecchin)
Cesare Paciotti ... hairdressing / makeup artist
Euclide Santoli ... hairdressing / makeup artist

Production Management

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Umberto Sambuco ... production manager

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Franco Cirino ... assistant director
Johannes Freisinger ... assistant director: Vienna (as Johann Freisinger)
Mario Garriba ... second assistant director
Paola Tallarigo ... assistant director

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Maria-Teresa Barbasso ... assistant art director (uncredited)

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Fausto Ancillai ... sound mixer
Roberto Arcangeli ... effects
Michael Billingsley ... sound editor
Robert Rietty ... post synchronisation director
Eugenio Rondani ... sound
Decio Trani ... boom operator
Fernando Caso ... sound effects editor (uncredited)
Alvaro Gramigna ... foley artist (uncredited)

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Ivan Tozzi ... digital color grading restoration

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Francesco Bellomo ... still photographer (as Franco Bellomo)
Vittorio Chessari ... chief grip
Domizio Ercolani ... chief electrician
Giancarlo Granatelli ... assistant camera
Sandro Tamborra ... camera operator
Mario Tursi ... still photographer

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Maria Fanetti ... wardrobe mistress
Alberto Verso ... assistant: Mr. Tosi

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Karl Böhm ... conductor: "Die Zauberflöte" (as Karl Bohm)
Daniele Paris ... conductor

Script and Continuity Department

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Maria Luisa Rosen ... continuity

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Dino Di Dionisio ... production unit
Otto Boris Dworak ... production secretary: Vienna (as Otto Dworak)
Roberto Edwards ... production secretary
Joseph E. Levine ... presenter
Raffaele Mottola ... dialogue coach
Umberto Sambuco ... production unit
Cesare Barbetti ... voice dubbing: Amedeo Amodio: Italian version (uncredited)
Gianfranco Bellini ... voice dubbing: Italian version (uncredited)
Charles Borromel ... voice dubbing: english version (uncredited)
Cicely Browne ... voice dubbing: Isa Miranda (uncredited)
David de Keyser ... voice dubbing: Gabriele Ferzetti (uncredited)
Vittoria Febbi ... voice dubbing: Charlotte Rampling: Italian version (uncredited)
Charles Howerton ... voice dubbing: Geoffrey Copleston (uncredited)
Nino Lembo ... jewellery (uncredited)
Pino Locchi ... voice dubbing: Philippe Leroy: Italian version (uncredited)
Gianni Marzocchi ... voice dubbing: Marino Masé: Italian version (uncredited)
Renato Mori ... voice dubbing: Geoffrey Copleston: Italian version (uncredited)
Raffaele Mottola ... additional dialogue (uncredited)
Edmund Purdom ... voice dubbing: Philippe Leroy (uncredited)
Robert Rietty ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
Giuseppe Rinaldi ... voice dubbing: Dirk Bogarde: Italian version (uncredited)
Lydia Simoneschi ... voice dubbing: Isa Miranda: Italian version (uncredited)
Piero Tiberi ... voice dubbing: Kai-Siegfried Seefeld: Italian version (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

Thirteen years after World War II, concentration camp survivor Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) and her tormentor Max (Sir Dirk Bogarde), currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship. Written by Ed Sutton

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Also Known As
  • Portier de nuit (France)
  • The Night Porter (World-wide, English title)
  • The Night Porter (United States)
  • The Night Porter (Canada, English title)
  • The Night Porter (Thailand, English title)
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  • 118 min
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Trivia Sir Dirk Bogarde considered retiring from acting after making this movie, which he found to be a draining experience. See more »
Goofs In the flashbacks, Max is wearing the War Merit Cross First Class with Swords upside down on his SS uniform. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985). See more »
Soundtracks Don Juan See more »
Quotes Hans: I'm only here to ask you some questions on behalf of myself and the others, and to have a look at you. Look, I could have come at another time to see him too, but, I don't need to speak to him. I don't need to speak to him... in front of you. Useless. With this business of the trial, he's... become too diffident.
Lucia: He's right.
Hans: What do you mean?
Lucia: Because then for the first time he saw you all clearly. Nothing's changed, has it?
Hans: You're wrong. We've all had our trials. Now we are cured and live in peace with ourselves.
Lucia: There's no cure.
Hans: It is you who are ill. Otherwise, you wouldn't be with somebody who made you...
Lucia: That's my affair.
Hans: Very well. But nevertheless, your mind is disturbed. That's why you're here, fishing up the past.
Lucia: Max is more than just the past.
[Lucia crawls under a table]
Hans: Listen. Why don't you go to the police? If you want to, I'll take you. Hm?
Lucia: Dr. Fogler, I remember you so well. You gave a lot of orders.
Hans: Then you can't have forgotten that your Max was an obedient Sturmscharführer. Remember?
Lucia: I don't remember.
Hans: I certainly can't oblige you to remember if you don't want to.
[clears his throat]
Hans: I'm only here to ask you to testify, to find out... if the situation in which you find yourself is of your own choice.
Lucia: I'm all right here.
Hans: Yes. You both want to live in peace, right? One lives in peace... when one is in harmony with one's close friends, when one respects an agreement. Tell Max that. We could have denounced him to the police for the murder of Mario. But we didn't. Max is ill. He mustn't be too far away from us! He's locked you up here. We could go to the police about that, too, no?
Lucia: I'm here of my own free will. This chain is because of you, so none of you can take me away.
Hans: If we wanted to carry you off, would this chain stop us? You poor fool. A chain can be cut. None of us is thinking of violence.
Lucia: Hmm, I know how your, your witnesses end up. Max told me.
[Lucia crawls out from under the table, away from Hans]
Hans: Max doesn't know what he's saying or doing. His mind is disordered.
Lucia: [crawling into the bathroom] Get out. Go away. Go away!
[slams the door]
Hans: If you change your mind, if the chain grows heavy... call me.
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