The Night Porter
The Most Controversial Picture of Our Time!
WarDramaRomancehoteluniformconcentration camperoticismsadomasochismflashbackvienna, austriaguiltwoman directorsubmissionsexual dysfunctiondominance submissiveness
A deeply disturbing psychological study of trauma, complicity, and perverse desire that uses sadomasochistic eroticism to explore the moral abyss of Nazi guilt and survival.
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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