(m62) night porter

two of the same actors: rampling and dirk bogarde who were in the damned. the year is 1957, somewhere in germany. dirk bogarde is the night porter at a hotel, when charlotte rampling shows up. they had a "relationship" many years earlier in some concentration camp, where rampling was a jew and bogarde was SS. the relationship obviously was not of equals since rampling was but a girl and all the power was in bogarde's hands, but nonetheless it was quite intense. bogarde uses the hotel to host various fellow members of the SS. They have a ritual, where they produce witnesses to their crimes and then confess and then those who have control over documents burn them. bogarde has never submitted to this process and doesn't want to. (he kills some italian who would have been a witness against him rather than involve him in this process and this is unclear, but goes against the rules.) rampling is supposed to be a witness against him in this process, but bogarde wants to rekindle the relationship. rampling who is accompanying her musician husband (from america) stays in the hotel and although she seems coerced, in fact invites the continuation of the relationship. she moves in with bogarde and they continue. bogarde turns the apartment into a prison for the two of them. he is shot at by the SS men who want him to submit or to hand over Rampling, but he prefers to live as a prisoner with her. Eventually they leave the apartment together and are both shot, which is a culmination of their relationship and something that they both desire.