
Overview
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Details
- Director
- Philip Kaufman
- Writer
- Doug Wright
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $13,500,000
Cast
Amelia Warner
Billie Whitelaw
Geoffrey Rush
Jane Menelaus
Joaquin Phoenix
Kate Winslet
Michael Caine
Patrick Malahide
Stephen Moyer
Tony Pritchard
Keywords
19th century
asylum
based on play or musical
french revolution
maid
paris
france
smuggling (contraband)
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