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Dirk Night of the Soul

Dirk Night of the Soul

2 Episodes

The fascinating and elusive matinee idol turned art-house actor Dirk Bogarde gives complex and morally ambiguous performances in both of these controversial, ahead-of-their-time dramas.

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Dirk Night of the Soul

2 Episodes

  • Victim
    1:40:34
    Victim
    Episode 1

    Victim

    Episode 1

    Directed by Basil Dearden • 1961 • United Kingdom

    An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of early-sixties social intolerance and sexual puritanism. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married barrister who is one of a large group of closeted London me...

  • The Night Porter
    1:58:18
    The Night Porter
    Episode 2

    The Night Porter

    Episode 2

    Directed by Liliana Cavani • 1974 • Italy
    Starring Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde

    In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar ...

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