Marquis de Sade | |
---|---|
Directed by | Gwyneth Gibby |
Written by | Craig J. Nevius |
Starring | Nick Mancuso |
Production companies | New Horizons MosFilm |
Distributed by | Showtime (US) |
Release date |
|
Running time | 93 mins |
Countries | USA Russia |
Language | English |
Marquis de Sade is a 1996 American film about Marquis de Sade. It was part financed by Roger Corman (who had done some uncredited directing on a 1969 biopic of de Sade) and screened on Roger Corman Presents.
It is also known as Dark Prince: Intimate Tales of Marquis de Sade.[2]
The film was shot in Moscow.[3]
Premise
[edit]A woman, Justine, searches for her lost sister, Juliette, and encounters the Marquis se Sade.
Cast
[edit]- Nick Mancuso as Marquis de Sade
- Janet Gunn as Justine
- John Rhys-Davies
- Charlotte Nielsen as Juliette
Reception
[edit]According to one academic, the film gives a more sympathetic depiction of de Sade than usual, presenting him "as a roguish, swashbuckling anti-hero; a red-blooded, flamboyant and slightly ridiculous epicurean, whose pleasures are curtailed by his incarceration in the Bastille, facilitated by his outraged mother-in-law... He is presented as a Three Musketeers-style hero."[4]
Psychotronic Video said "Mancuso is too good for this project and has lots of (too much actually) dialog."[3]
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Marquis de Sade at IMDb
- Maquis de Sade at Letterbox DVD