Ivo van Hove's direction of Les Damnés had its world premiere as the opening performance of the Festival d'Avignon. This theatrical adaptation, based on a film script by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, shows how a family of rich German industrialists is fatally corrupted by its collaboration with the Nazi party that has come to power. Family patriarch Baron Joachim resists and is liquidated. The struggle for the succession leads to an escalation of intrigues and manipulations, betrayal and murder.
as Baron Joachim von Essenbeck
as Sophie von Essenbeck
as Friedrich Bruckmann
as Günther von Essenbeck
as Elisabeth Thallman / waitress
as Herbert Thallman
as Janek
as Konstantin von Essenbeck
as Martin von Essenbeck
as Headmaster / Inspecor
as Olga
