Women for cell block 9

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Movie
Original title Women for cell block 9
Country of production Switzerland
original language English
Publishing year 1978
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Jesus Franco
script Jesus Franco
music Walter Baumgartner
camera Ruedi Kuettel
occupation

Women for Cell Block 9 is a film by Spanish director Jess Franco from 1977. The production combines elements from the exploitation genres of sexploitation , women's prison and camp films.

action

The film takes place in a South American jungle prison at the time of a revolt. At the beginning the camp commandant and the prison doctor Dr. Costa with some guards on a truck. This is said to have loaded fruit and vegetables. But there are also six young women on board. After three of them have been called out by name and arrested on suspicion of revolutionary activities, the other three are made available to the guards for rape . The three inmates, Karin, Barbara and Aida, find themselves shortly afterwards, naked and chained while standing, in the notorious cell block 9 . Little by little they are presented for "interrogation", which the doctor supports through various and perfidious tortures. After Barbara and Aida have withstood the torture and have remained silent, Karin collapses under the torture and denounces some revolutionaries in the (not named) capital.

In the meantime, the young local student Marie also ends up in the same cell. Propaganda material of the rebels was allegedly found on her. Her torture consisted of spending three days in a solitary cell without food or water . She was then taken to the commandant's and doctor's dinner, where she first had to satisfy the boss orally and then get a small sip of over-salted champagne .

When the four women in cell block 9 are among themselves again, they forge a plan to escape to warn their contacts in the capital. The quartet manages to distract their guard, knock him down and flee with his rifle. Shortly after leaving the cell block, Aida is killed in an exchange of fire with another guard who is also killed. The other three flee into the jungle, where Barbara is still shot and only progresses slowly. But they make it to an old temple, where they feel safe, and remove the bullet from Barbara's shoulder. When Karin and Marie go into the jungle to look for something to eat, the chasing guards come on their trail and also arrive at the temple. After Barbara was killed with the butt of a rifle, the other two, alarmed by their screams, run back to the temple and suddenly stand in front of the camp commandant and the doctor, surrounded by prison guards, alone in the wide hallway. In a final act of desperation, Karin snatches her pistol from the commandant. But when she doesn't pull the trigger, the commandant gives the order to fire and the last two prisoners are struck down on the spot. The film ends with the release of the corpses for desecration.

Publications

The film, distributed by the film distributor Avis , celebrated its premiere on March 17, 1978. The film was also evaluated on video under the title Escape from the Island of Death . In English-speaking countries the film was sold under the titles Tropical Inferno and Women in Cellblock 9 , in France under Visa pour mourir and Des femmes pour le bloc 9 .

criticism

The Video Movie Guide rated it as a "cheap second-rate movie". Steven Marsh and Parvati Nair saw it in the context of other Franco films: “The series of films with a lesbian tinge was tailored for a homosexual audience with the cliché ingredients - sadistic guards, female dictators with strong sexual appetites, innocent young girls in prison, cruel female guards and so on ”. The film service noted that the film "played out its sadisms with undisguised pleasure".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mick Martin, Marsha Potter: Video Movie Guide 2002
  2. ^ Steven Marsh, Parvati Nair: Gender and Spanish Cinema. 2004, p. 141
  3. ↑ http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?wert=25352&sucheNach=titel