I don’t buy,I don’t know enough about psychology to understand how many women seem to accept being in abusive relationships and yes,seem to enjoy the pain,I don’t understand masochists and yes I have heard of the Stockholm syndrome,but I don’t buy this film because I’ve seen numerous documentaries and read many about concentration camps and other victims of oppression,for example in Argentina,and I’ve never once heard of a victim behaving like this.
In this isn’t telling me anything about the human condition all it comes down to is a fantasy,what someone wants to imagine as possible.Who dreamt up the cabaret scene?Max Mosselly or some other pervert?Concentration camps as erotica don’t do it for me,this is art?
Dirk Bogarde does look really good in a nazi uniform and the night porters uniform.
If you like beating women this is a film for you,if you think the holocaust was the low point in the history of humanity I’d give it a miss.