Wide screen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

Includes interview from 1970 with director Luchino Visconti about the film ; archival interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin and Charlotte Rampling ; Visconti On Set, a 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary ; new interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the sexual politics of the film.

Wide screen (1.85:1) aspect ratio ; region 1; monaural.

Directors of photography, Armando Nannuzzi and Pasqualino De Santis; music, Maurice Jarre ; editor, Ruggiero Mastroianni.

Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan, Albrecht Schönhals, Unmberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff.

"The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut Berger, memorably donning Marlene Dietrich-like drag in his breakthrough role)--descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all-consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti's luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family's downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation"--Container.

DVD.

In English and German with English subtitles or English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; alternate Italian audio with English subtitles.