Women tormented to the point of madness

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Movie
German title Women tormented to the point of madness
Original title Le foto proibite di una signora per bene
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1970
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Luciano Ercoli
script Ernesto Gastaldi ,
Mahnahén Velasco
(as May Velasco )
production Alberto Pugliese ,
Luciano Ercoli,
José Frade
music Ennio Morricone
camera Alejandro Ulloa
cut Luciano Ercoli
occupation
synchronization

Women tormented to the point of madness (Original title: Le foto proibite di una signora per bene ) is a Spanish-Italian erotic thriller by the Italian filmmaker Luciano Ercoli, who died in 2015 . Ercoli is responsible for the direction and editing. The film, released in Italy in 1970, belongs to the genre of Giallo .

action

The bored housewife Minou is attacked by a sadist while walking on the beach in the evening, threatened and, completely frightened, is released again. From then on, he blackmailed his victim with the knowledge that her well-off husband had committed a murder in the past. Erotic meetings should take place, otherwise the blackmailer would tell the police about his knowledge. Minou has no doubts about the sadist's statement, especially since he can present a tape recording of the course of events. Concerned for the well-being of her husband, she agrees and seeks the stranger in his apartment, where he humiliates her and performs sexual acts on her.

Minou, who is mentally weak, tries to take part in social life as usual. During a girls' evening together with her best friend Dominique, while rummaging through their private photo collection, she surprisingly finds a picture of the perpetrator. It later turns out that the perpetrator belongs to the wider circle of friends of her own husband Pier. Pier himself had hired the sadist - a holiday acquaintance from Copenhagen - to drive his wife insane and into suicide.

Dominique worriedly observes what is going on in the house of her friend Minou, who is already visited by the perpetrator at home when her husband is absent and is forced to have sex there. It is thanks to Dominique that the police arrive before Pier can kill his wife in the showdown, thus completing the deed he had actually commissioned the sadist to do. Pier denies his guilt to the arriving officers. Since he comes dangerously close to the law enforcement officers with a knife in hand, they have no choice but to shoot the landlord. The latter had shot his service provider - the sadist - shortly before, because he was now harassing, frightening and harassing Minou in her house, even without a "mandate". The goal of driving Minou into suicide, he had apparently failed and was thus useless.

Dominique had secretly done her own research and clarified the investigators present: Pier's company is in financial difficulties. So some time ago he'd added Minou's life insurance policy in his favor. After that, all he had to do was bring about her suicide.

useful information

Partly it was shot in Barcelona . The Torre de Sant Sebastià observation tower at the port plays a not insignificant role.

synchronization

Women tormented to the point of madness was dubbed by the Munich Aventine . The dialogue direction was carried out by Horst Sommer , who also wrote the dialogue book .

actor German speaker role
Dagmar Lassander Marion Hartmann Minou
Pier Paolo Capponi Horst Naumann pier
Nieves Navarro Karin Kernke Dominique
Salvador Huguet Manfred Schott Giorgio
Simón Andreu Klaus Löwitsch sadist
NN Hartmut Neugebauer Tape voice

criticism

The film was largely received positively. On Schnittberichte.com Ercoli's work is referred to as a “top-class psychological thriller” . According to Christian Ade from Filmtipps.at, the erotic thriller is not one of them, but there is no lack of tension - generated by “a certain unpredictability and plot twists” . “Excitement to the end” also confirms the Italian online magazine Futuro Europa in its film review on the occasion of Luciano Ercoli's death. In addition, the soundtrack is called impressive there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c women tormented to the point of madness. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Schnittberichte.com
  3. ↑ Filmtipps.at
  4. ^ Film review. In: Futuro Europe. Retrieved on October 5, 2016 (Italian): "tensione narrativa fino all'ultima sequenza"