There are few taboos that Luchino Visconti does not break here.

The power and fortune of the von Essenbeck family remained intact even after Germany's defeat in the First World War and during the Great Depression that followed.
It is now 1934, and the Baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the ancestral house, accompanied by a rising manager from the Baron's company. Two little girls recite poetry in the parlour and then play hide-and-seek with their cousin Martin. Suddenly, there is a scream. The Baron has been shot with their father’s gun, and the father flees the country.

“The Damned” introduces the author’s German Trilogy, which also includes “Death in Venice” and “Ludwig” – presented now to Estonian audiences in its entirety for the first time.

This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth and 50th anniversary of the death of Luchino Visconti.