The Damned (1969 film)

The Damned (Italian title: La caduta degli dei [literally "The Fall of the Gods"]) is a 1969 Italian-German drama film written and directed by Luchino Visconti. The plot centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party, a thinly veiled reference to the Essen-based Krupp family of steel industrialists.

The Italian title is the conventional translation of the term Götterdämmerung (with its Wagnerian association), but for the German version, the title Die Verdammten ("The Damned") was chosen. All versions use Götterdämmerung as a subtitle, however.

The German Trilogy

The Damned has often been regarded as the first of Visconti's films described as "The German Trilogy", followed by Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973). Author Henry Bacon, in his book "Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay" (1998), specifically categorizes these films together under a chapter "Visconti & Germany". Visconti's earlier films had analyzed Italian society during the Risorgimento and postwar periods. Peter Bondanella's Italian Cinema (2002) depicts the trilogy as a move to take a broader view of European politics and culture. Stylistically, "They emphasize lavish sets and costumes, sensuous lighting, painstakingly slow camerawork, and a penchant for imagery reflecting subjective states or symbolic values," comments Bondanella.

'The Damned' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)

Actors: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (producer), Grey DeLisle (actress), Kevin Michael Richardson (actor), Mark Sussman (actor), Wendy Cutler (actress), Stephen Apostolina (actor), Lia Sargent (actress), Nicholas Guest (actor), Mark Hamill (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Greg Ellis (actor), Kevin Michael Richardson (actor), Graham McTavish (actor), Charles Adler (miscellaneous crew), Victoria Tennant (actress),

Plot: After fighting in the Crusades for three years, Dante rides back home to his family estate to reunite with his beloved Beatrice and his father. Dante sees a rider following him, but out of the blue, the man vanishes with no trace. When he arrives home, he sees the servants slaughtered, his father murdered and Beatrice near death. When her soul is going to the heaven, Lucifer takes Beatrice to Hell, telling her that Dante has betrayed her. Dante meets Virgil who guides him to Hell, and the poet explains that Beatrice had a bet with Lucifer that Dante would be faithful to her while in the holy war. In return, Lucifer would protect Dante and bring him back home safe and sound. Upon arrival in Hell, Dante learns that he needs to cross nine circles to reach Lucifer ad on his painful journey, he discovers who doomed his family to suffer in Hell.

Keywords: anime, anthology, apostrophe-in-title, crusades, epic, hell, punctuation-in-title, redemption
Genres: Action, Animation, Fantasy, Horror,

Quotes:

Dante: Why, God? Why are you doing this?::Virgil: It is not the Lord that brought you to this fate, Dante.::Dante: What are you, shade or living man?::Virgil: Not man, though once I was. I lived under Augustus in the time of the false and lying gods.::Dante: Are you not Virgil, glory of the poets, he who wrote the Aeneid, the treasure of Rome?::Virgil: Why do you seek such woe, Dante?::Dante: I seek only my beloved Beatrice and nothing more, but I cannot open these accursed gates!::Virgil: Have you lost all faith in God, O man? Has the way been so obscured?

Dante: Tell me of your life on Earth, great poet. I know your deeds, but not the man you were.::Virgil: Publius Vergilius Maro was my name. I was the son of a commoner. And though I died more than a dozen years before the birth of Christ, I foretold his coming in my works.

Lucifer: Even the purist souls can be corrupted. Dante is not the man you once knew.::Beatrice: You did this to him. You corrupted his heart.::Lucifer: I've had no need to influence humanity for many millennium idea. I simply introduced sin. Men is the one who has spreaded it like a disease; cultivating it, empowering it.::Beatrice: It is not our fault, none of it. Men is good.::Lucifer: No, you don't understand. The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons.

Dante: We were together neither in hell nor in paradise, neither damned nor saved, I did not die, and I did not live.

Antebellum (2006)

Actors: Michael Benni Pierce (editor), Michael Benni Pierce (director), Monty Geer (actor), Monty Geer (miscellaneous crew), J. Wilder Konschak (writer), Josh Weissbach (miscellaneous crew), Gabriel McKee (actor), Zak Kauffman (producer), Zak Kauffman (actor), Karl Moore (actor), Justin Philpot (actor), Mark Hugo (actor), Ryan Moore (miscellaneous crew), Paul Adzima (actor), Anthony Miller (actor),

Plot: In an old Civil War Era horse barn, Linder's girlfriend, Tess, has arrayed the rooms with camcorders, tricked out with infrared and motion detectors, hoping to catch the ghosts of the building's ghastly past. When Linder and his friend Burl come to pick Tess up at the barn, she's not waiting outside, and they venture inside to find her. Following the trail of cameras, Linder and Burl uncover the supernatural mysteries of the barn, and ultimately come face-to-face with its unexpected and horrifying reality.