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Seduction: The Cruel Woman (Verführung: Die grausame Frau) is a 1985 West German film, directed by Elfi Mikesch [de] and Monika Treut, who both also wrote the screenplay. Wanda is played by Mechthild Großmann [de]. The film was inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs.[1]

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Seduction: The Cruel Woman DVD cover
Directed by	Elfi Mikesch [de] Monika Treut
Screenplay by	Elfi Mikesch [de] Monika Treut
Edited by	Renate Merck
Music by	Marran Gosov [de]
Production company	Hyena Films
Distributed by	First Run Features (USA)
Release date	February 22, 1985 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Synopsis

Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in Hamburg. She lures men and women of all types into her sadomasochistic world where audiences pay for the privilege of seeing her humiliate her slaves. The end is an ultimate mix of eros and thanatos.

And when she is eventually gunned down, not by her American female lover whom she turns into an assistant-Mistress and not by her older tender shoe-fetishist motherly concerned lover either, but by — of all people — her husband (who is also her slave), the supreme joy on her face is absolutely ineffable.

— Miodrag Kojadinović, "Seduction: The Cruel Woman I Could Have Been", Angles magazine, Vancouver, January 1994

Cast

• Mechthild Großmann [de] as Wanda
• Udo Kier as Gregor
• Sheila McLaughlin as Justine
• Carola Regnier [de] as Caren
• Peter Weibel as Herr Maehrsch, Journalist
• Georgette Dee [de] as Friederike
• Barbara Ossenkopp: Leila
• Daniela Ziegler: Mother

Film Festivals

The movie was shown at the following film festivals, among others:

• 1985 Berlin International Film Festival, Forum[2]
• 1985 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival[3]

See also

• Sadism and masochism in fiction

References

External links

• Official website
• Seduction: The Cruel Woman at IMDb

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