Queer Cineclub organizes a screening of the film
The Damned / La caduta degli dei (directed by Luchino Visconti, 1969). Starring Helmut Berger, the film is part of a series known as “the German trilogy”, that the director dedicated to evoking some episodes in the history of Germany.
Having a script which received an Academy Award nomination,
The Damned follows the struggle for power which takes place in a family of industrialists on the background of the ascension of the Third Reich and on the increasing pressure to collaborate with the leaders of the Nazi movement. The falling to pieces of the industrial empire and the decay of the Essenbeck family is a symbolic representation of the moral decay of an entire privileged social class which being unable to reform, caused the conditions of establishing the Nazi movement.
The screening will take place on Thursday, February 22, at Cinemateca Union, starting with 19:00 and it will be followed by a discussion with the film critics Georgiana Madin and Andrei Luca.
Queer Cineclub is a film project that means organizing two film events per month, representing the screening of queer films. By this initiative, the Queer Cineclub intends to bring to the attention of the audience a series of classical LGBTQ+ films from the world cinema (produced until 1990), with the intention of rediscovering and re-discussing a heritage that already existed in the collections of the Film National Archives.
The visual of the event is made by Radu Pop.
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