DAMNED

Original Argentine 29 inch x 43 inch Poster for the 1969 Luchino Visconti Drama THE DAMNED starring Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Albrecht Schoenhals, Rene Koldehoff, Florinda Bolkan and Charlotte Rampling.

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble familymust adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German industrial firm (a thinly veiled reference to the Essen-based Krupp family of steel industrialists). Through such characters as a German Baron, a child molester, a Nazi Storm Trooper, an innocent man framed for murder, and a Captain in the German SS, “Damned” thus shows how so called “German Upper Class Nobility” first resented Adolf Hitler, then accepted him, and at last embraced him.

The poster is in very good folded condition. There is slight creasing in the right border and corner pinholes.