Malcolm McDowell as captain von Berkow
Malcolm McDowell as captain von Berkow
3,749 words
Karel Veliky
Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/sadonacismus-ve-filmu-cast-4/
Translated by Ondrej Mann
“We must categorically reject the attempt, made primarily by W. Reich, to derive the instinct for destruction from the repression of the instinct for pleasure.”
—Julius Evola, Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex.
Visconti’s authority and the international success of his The Damned (see Part II) were reflected in the fact that in the early 1970s there was perhaps no film about “fascism” or “Nazis” that did not take into account their “sick sexuality.” The Conformist (1970, dir. B. Bertolucci), based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, depicts the behavior of a man (played by J. P. Trintignant), a weak-willed intellectual for whom the only acceptable way out of his own insecurities is to “merge with the totalitarian crowd.” (more…)
