The Damned

“He was soon to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany.”

The Von Essenbeck family, steel barons of Germany, must adjust to the new dictatorship in the early days of Nazi rule. Luchino Visconti follows the household as Frederick Bruckmann (Dirk Bogarde), Sophie (Ingrid Thulin) and Martin (Helmut Berger) each reach for a place in the new order. Martin, the heir nobody takes seriously, moves through the family's rooms in his mother's company.