Production Year: 1970 - Horror - Director: Jess Franco - Original Language: Italian - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Adolfo Lastretti, Margaret Lee, Jesus Franco, Dennis Price, Maria Rohm, Manfred Mann, Klaus Kinski, James Darren more
This bizarre European jazz-horror film is named after the controversial novel by Leopold Sacher Masoch, but the similarities end with the title. James Darren stars as Jimmy, a... more
Venus In Furs DVD
This is the true film adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's infamous novel of ... more
perversion and pain. Most importantly though it stars the astonishing Laura Antonelli naked and fired up for action! Regis Vallee plays the Peeping Tom obsessive Severi...
Venus in Furs
Sometimes there are no limits to what you'll do for the person you love. From the first ... more
moment Severin sees Wanda draped in furs he is captivated by her beauty and her cruelty. He will do anything to please her and soon desire becomes obsession as they enter into a world of domination pleasure and pain to which it seems there are no boundaries. But as Wanda's fantasies become increasingly brutal and she takes another lover their games begin to get dangerously out of control. A shocking exploration of masochism narcissism and sexual power Venus in Furs brought instant notoriety to its author for its unprecedented portrayal of a man who passionately makes himself the slave of the woman he loves. Sacher-Masoch freely mixes philosophy and pornography in the story of Severin von Kusiemski a European nobleman who finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty under the tutelage of the merciless beauty Wanda von Dunajew. More than a lurid tale of sexual obsession and perversion Venus in Furs is a daring successor to the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Pioneering in its revelations about the pain of love and the love of pain Sacher-Masoch's masterpiece remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.
Venus In Furs
This is the true film adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's infamous novel of ... more
perversion and pain. Most importantly though it stars the astonishing Laura Antonelli, naked and all fired up for action!Regis Vallee plays the Peeping Tom obsessive Severin who craves to be punished and humiliated due to being caught as a child spying on naked women in furs. Seeing Wanda (Antonelli) writhing in fur reawakens his twisted desires but in turning her into his dominant Venus he soon opens up a world of cruel sexual enslavement that will push him to the edge of sanity.A powerful descent into sadomasochistic degradation this beautifully cruel study of sexual submission is an erotic delight to be savoured over and over again...
Venus In Furs
James Darren [The Guns of Navarone] stars as a jazz trumpeter in the throes of a breakdown ... more
who is sucked into a perverse mire of psycho-sexual horror after finding the dead body of girl he had watched being stripped and whipped the previous evening at a party. Now Darren along with his sultry girlfriend (singer Barbara McNair), a kinky lesbian (Margaret Lee), a depraved playboy (Klaus Kinsky)...and the mysterious, insatiable beauty, (luscious Maria Rohm) begin a journey that may lead them all straight to hell.
Venus in Furs
First published in 1870 the author of 'Venus in Furs' defined -- and unwittingly gave his ... more
own name to -- that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated charged erotic classic. What woman could resist a trembling man handing her the whip? Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only love a woman with a ruthless heart who will rain her whip upon him in a shower of bloody kisses. When he meets Wanda the wealthy and beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs he wonders if she might be the one to help him realise his darkest desires. But Wanda is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination -- and soon Severin realises he is powerless to escape what he has begun. Here fantasy and reality writhe together in a ceaseless fraught embrace!
Plot: James Darren stars as Jimmy, a mixed-up trumpet player who finds the body of a beautiful woman, Wanda (Maria Rohm), washed up in the surf. He remembers her from a decadent party some years (or was it days?) before. In his flashback, she is mauled by some rich, decadent freaks named Ahmed (Klaus Kinski), Olga (Margaret Lee) and Kapp (Dennis Price). Jimmy splits for Carnivale in Rio, and jams with Manfred Mann, and soul-singing girlfriend Rita (Barbara McNair) until Wanda turns up alive (or is she?) Jimmy falls for her, and they have lots of sex, after which she stalks, seduces, and kills those responsible for her death.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): REDEMPTION FILMS; SALVATION FILMS; TOTAL HOME ENTERTAINMENT (THE)
Release date: 11/06/2007
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: REDDVD 039
Barcode: 5060080531356
Languages
Main Language: Italian
Dubbed Language: English
DVD Description
This bizarre European jazz-horror film is named after the controversial novel by Leopold Sacher Masoch, but the similarities end with the title. James Darren stars as Jimmy, a mixed-up trumpet player who finds the body of a beautiful woman, Wanda (Maria Rohm), washed up in the surf. He remembers her from a decadent party some years (or was it days?) before. In his flashback, she is mauled by some rich, decadent freaks named Ahmed (Klaus Kinski), Olga (Margaret Lee) and Kapp (Dennis Price). Jimmy splits for Carnivale in Rio, and jams with Manfred Mann, and soul-singing girlfriend Rita (Barbara McNair) until Wanda turns up alive (or is she?) Jimmy falls for her, and they have lots of sex, after which she stalks, seduces, and kills those responsible for her death. The jilted Rita gets sad and leaves Rio, but still sings the Venus in Furs theme song, and there’s a neat shock ending. This acid-soaked Euro-sex time capsule is even weirder than it sounds, thanks to the uncompromisingly warped vision of director Jess Franco.
Technical information
Special Features: Jess Franco interview, Maria Rohm interview, Theatrical trailer
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame
Sound: Dolby Digital
Professional reviews
Review: An exhilarating trip for bargain-basement surrealists (Premiere, 11/05/2007)
Advantages: Beatiful release of a lost movie Disadvantages: Thin on story, but great on looks
...Shameless Films 5th DVD release is the little seen (nowadays anyway) VenusInFurs, not to be confused with the 1969 Jess Franco edition currently available on the redemption label. This version from director Massimo Dallamano is based more accurately upon the novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch who's name believe it or not is where the word masochism originates from. The story here is delivered into modern times, well if you classify 1969 as modern.
VenusInFurs tells a story about fetishist Severin (Regis Vallee) a man who likes to watch people making love, and has done since being a child. While living his life in a sort of holiday camp by a beautiful lake his attention is drawn towards a young woman called Wanda (Laura Antonelli) a artists model who has decided to take vacation there. Luckily Severin is residing in the room next to...
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Advantages: Superb performances. Beautiful soundtrack. Disadvantages: Too many close-ups. A little shudder-inducing in parts.
...Despite eight nominations for best actor in the Academy Award, Peter O'Toole has never actually won an Oscar. Incredible, considering some of the memorable and well-loved roles he has played during his forty+ year film career (remember Lawrence of Arabia and the Man of Le Mancha - to name but two). His latest nomination was only this year in 2007 for his role in the film Venus.
Venus was not (in my opinion) one of O'Toole's finest roles or one his more endearing. Without O'Toole however, the film would have been lacking. It was O'Toole's screen presence that carried the film and made what could have been a faux-pas into something strangely absorbing and worth watching.
Venus is the result of collaboration between screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell. This is the second film the pair have made together...
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...I had witness what it was I had just witnessed. The film is not preachy, doesn?t presume to judge its characters or try convincing or persuading you in anyway. The filmmakers seen to want you to take everything, quite literally, at face value, to always keep in mind that the title of the movie is not called, Fur, for no reason.
Definitely shocking and certainly not for the timid or faint of heart; if you are a cynic, better to just bypass this DVD at the rental store....
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