Luchino Visconti S ‘German Trilogy’ The Damned, Death in Venice, Ludwig (1969 – 1973) * * Restored The Damned> (1969) Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig(1973) are known as Luchino Visconti S ‘German Trilogy’. Here Visconti examines the decadence of the Belle Epoque, the corruption and confusion behind the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany, and the story of Ludwig II of Bavaria who has been viewed as very eccentric and was the patron of Richard Wagner. Whilst some critics have marked this down as Visconti S ‘Decadent’ period, and noted an increasing pessimism in the themes that he dealt with this has frequently been over personalised. Visconti has argued that what interested him was the analysis of A sick society, and in these films the historical forces of Modernity versus Counter Modernity are being played out. In The Damned the representation of the infamous ‘Night of the Long Knives’ when the SS slaughtered the leadership of the sexually transgressive SA of Eric Röhm links the growth of Nazism to A crisis of Masculinity, and also explores the Homo Erotic bonding of Militarism which repress its own sexual excess instead transferring that into compulsory Hetero Sexuality in tandem with patriarchal … Meer lezen over Dennis Cooper – Luchino Visconti S ‘German Trilogy’ The Damned, Death in Venice, Ludwig (1969 – 1973) *