“THE NIGHT PORTER“ - “Wenn ich mir was Wunschen Durfte“ MARIA FARANTOURI

Thirteen years after WWII, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) and her Nazi tormentor (Dirk Bogarde), currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship. “The Night Porter“ is a provocative and problematic film. Made in 1974 by Italian director Liliana Cavani, it can be seen as an exercise in perversion and exploitation of the Holocaust for the sake of sensationalism. On the other hand, a closer reading of this English-language psy