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This time interpreting the novel Justine, Or The Misfortunes of Virtue. The Marquis de Sade himself makes an appearance in the film - played by Klaus Kinski. The film budget was large for a Franco ...

“Either kill me or take me like this, for I will not change,” wrote the imprisoned Marquis de Sade to his wife in ... Even his best novel, Justine, featuring a libertine priest defiling ...

Here are five things we should all know about the Marquis de Sade. Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1791), Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795), The New Justine (an extended version of Justine ...

The Marquis de Sade ... Notwithstanding his numerous noms de plume, the authorship of "Justine" and "Juliette" was suspected by Napoleon's government, and Sade spent his last 13 years at the ...

multiple adaptations of the Marquis’s work were made, taking advantage of a new permissiveness. Jess Franco’s adaptation of De Sade’s novel Justine (1969) had the mercurial, gimlet-eyed ...

Two years later, she published her take on the French writer the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814 ... in part concerned with abuses of sexual power, quotes from Sade and includes a carnally obsessed ...