Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil (1977)

1977

The film tells the story of the “ménage à trois” between Nietzsche, Paul Rée and Lou Salome, the beautiful woman they both were desperately in love with – Nietzsche proposed to her three times, being turned down every time, as she preferred friendship. Nevertheless, she agreed to live with them both, having them both as lovers, which of course could end in no other way but badly.

The Night Porter (1974)

1974

A concentration camp survivor discovers that her former torturer and lover is now working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna when she and her husband check in at the hotel. When her husband goes to the next city in their itinerary, she resumes her sadomasochistic love affair with her torturer.