Sanayici ve üst tabakadan köklü bir Alman ailesinin nasyonal sosyalizmin yükseliş yıllarındaki hikayesinin anlatıldığı bu filmde ihanet , cinayet , sapkınlık , ensest ...Luchino Visconti'nın unutulmaz ahlaki ve sosyal çöküş hikayesi.
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.