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One of cult director Jesus Franco's best-known efforts, this Swiss-West German co-production was his first collaboration with producer Erwin C. Dietrich, who would release numerous Franco efforts through his Elite Film studio. It seems like a standard women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria, jailed for life after killing her father when he tried to rape her. There's a lesbian warden, more rape, torture, insanity, and so forth, with the obligatory conspiracy and a downbeat twist ending to round out the formula. What makes this film different from many others in the subgenre is its unremitting atmosphere of despair and sleaziness, a quality Franco and Dietrich also brought to the similar Greta, Haus Ohne Maenner two years later. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Lina Romay
Spain
Best movies:
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Faceless (1987)
Swedish Nympho Slaves (1976)
Paul Muller
Switzerland
Best movies:
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
El Cid (1961)
Blazing Sun (1960)
Monica Swinn
Belgium
Best movies:
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Doriana Grey (1976)
Caged Women (1975)
Roger Darton
Belgium
Best movies:
Caged Women (1975)
Female Mercenaries II (1984)
Captive Women 4 (1977)
Martine Stedil
Best movies:
Swedish Nympho Slaves (1976)
Doriana Grey (1976)
Caged Women (1975)
Eric Falk
Best movies:
21 Hours at Munich (1976) (TV movie)
Come Play with Me 2 (1980)
Caged Women (1975)
Jesús Franco
Spain
Best movies:
The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Paroxismus (1969)