The Damned

The Damned (Götterdämmerung) (Italian: La caduta degli dei, lit. 'The Fall of the Gods'; German: Die Verdammten) is a 1969 historical drama film directed by Luchino Visconti, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nicola Badalucco and Enrico Medioli. It stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan, Reinhard Kolldehoff and Albrecht Schönhals in his final film. Set in 1930s Germany, the film centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party, and whose amoral and unstable heir is embroiled in his family's machinations. The film's story and characters are loosely based on the German Krupp family of steel industrialists from Essen, who became prominent