Movies
February, 1970
The Damned is a work of dazzling virtuosity by Italy's Luchino Visconti, whose last comparable effort was The Leopard. In this dark investigation of the military-industrial power structure that forged Germany's blueprint for disaster under Hitler, Visconti casts a bitter eye on the predatory members of a munitions-making dynasty. (Though the name here is Essenbeck, it is worth noting that the Krupp family's holdings included the vast steelworks at Essen.) Beginning with a birthday dinner in the...
