Marquis de Sade: Justine

Movie
Original title	Marquis de Sade: Justine
Country of production	Italy , Germany
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1969
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Jess Franco
script	Arpad De Riso Erich Kröhnke
production	Harry Alan Towers
music	Bruno Nicolai
camera	Manuel Merino
cut	Nicholas Wentworth
occupation
Klaus Kinski : Marquis de Sade Romina Power : Justine Maria Rohm : Juliette Harald Leipnitz : Raymond Jack Palance : Water Antonin Rosemarie Dexter : Claudine Akim Tamiroff : You harpin Horst Frank : Marquis de Bressac Sylva Koscina : Marquise de Bressac Mercedes McCambridge : Madame Dubois Carmen de Lirio : Madame de Buisson Gustavo Re : Derroches Serena Vergano : Prisoners José Manuel Martín : Victor Mike Brendel : Pierre Angel Petit : Jasmine Howard Vernon : Clement Luis Ciges : Emanuel Rosalba Neri : Florette Claudia Gravy : Olivia Gérard Tichy : Courville

Marquis de Sade: Justine is an Italian-German feature film directed by Jess Franco from 1968 with Klaus Kinski and Romina Power in the leading roles. The script was written by Arpad De Riso and Erich Kröhnke . It is based on the novel Justine by Marquis de Sade , which he wrote in the summer of 1787 as a prisoner in the Bastille and of which three versions exist. In the German-speaking countries, the film was first shown in cinemas on June 13, 1969, after major cuts (the original English version runs 124 minutes).

action

Two young sisters from a good family, Justine and Juliette, suddenly find themselves penniless after the father's bankruptcy and the mother's death and have to leave the convent school . While the unscrupulous Juliette is immediately accommodated in a blissful house , rises to be mistress of the nobility and countess, removes and inherits her husband in order to be able to live unchallenged in luxury, the virtuous Justine is hardly spared a humiliation. Her steadfastness and honesty earn her vindictive slanders and suspicions, whereby the forced stay in a monastery with perverted monks represents the blackest chapter until after fifteen years of all things the depraved Juliette can save her sister from execution.

criticism

"Schnulze patched together from de Sade's novels, perverted into the negative."

- Lexicon of international film

"The film set before the French Revolution (...) softens the details, but also the controversial tendency of the book in favor of a varied costume film, which despite occasional artificial features is clearly inspired by the current" Sado wave ". The result deserves neither strict rejection nor literary interest. "

- Protestant film observer

Web links

• Marquis de Sade: Justine in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 261/1969, p. 258 f.
2. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2497.