(Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam : The Damned)

Content: Ivo van Hove's direction of Les Damnés had its world premiere as the opening performance of the Festival d'Avignon. This theatrical adaptation, based on a film script by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, shows how a family of rich German industrialists is fatally corrupted by its collaboration with the Nazi party that has come to power. Family patriarch Baron Joachim resists and is liquidated. The struggle for the succession leads to an escalation of intrigues and manipulations, betrayal and murder.

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Drama

Runtime:

135 minutes

Directors:

Ivo van Hove

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Production companies:

Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

Actors:

Baron Joachim von Essenbeck

Sophie von Essenbeck

Friedrich Bruckmann

Günther von Essenbeck

Elisabeth Thallman / waitress

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Director

Adaptation

Original Film Writer