The Night Porter [Blu-Ray, Region A/B/C Import - Spain]

The Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C release of "The Night Porter" from Spain will not play on a regular DVD player. To view this Blu-Ray DVD, you will need a Blu-Ray DVD player. The audio languages available are English (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (DTS-HD Master Audio), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), German (Dolby Digital 2.0), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0), and Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0). Subtitles are available in English, French, German, and Spanish. The aspect ratio is WIDESCREEN (1.85:1).

The special features included are an Interactive Menu and Scene Access. The synopsis of the film is as follows:

Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet and unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' needs, from cold water to a bed-warming gigolo. Then, Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) arrives at the hotel, on the arm of her husband, an American composer, and Max's past comes flooding back to him. It turns out that Max was an S.S. officer at a Nazi concentration camp where Lucia was a beautiful young prisoner. She became, in effect, Max's sexual slave. Now, years later, their reunion shatters both of their lives.

Lucia stays in Vienna after her husband travels on, in order to see Max, and they find themselves caught up in a renewal of their former sadomasochistic relationship. Max has an upcoming show trial for his war crimes. His former S.S. comrades have been carefully destroying documents and "filing away" witnesses to clear all their names, and, while Max tries to keep Lucia's existence a secret from them, they eventually find out about her. They consider her a threat, and they urge Max to turn her over to them. He quits his job, and he and Lucia hide out in his apartment, while his former friends keep watch.

Liliana Cavani (Ripley's Game) co-wrote and directed this controversial film, "Il Portiere di notte," which she reportedly based partly on her own interviews with a Holocaust survivor.

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