Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985)

  • 16
  • 02/22/1985 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 24m

Overview

Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate BDSM fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American "trainee," and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.

Elfi Mikesch

Director, Writer

Monika Treut

Director, Writer

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Novel

Cast

Udo Kier's headshot

Udo Kier

Gregor
Mechthild Großmann's headshot

Mechthild Großmann

Wanda
Carola Regnier's headshot

Carola Regnier

Caren
Sheila McLaughlin's headshot

Sheila McLaughlin

Justine
Georgette Dee's headshot

Georgette Dee

Friederike
Barbara Ossenkopp's headshot

Barbara Ossenkopp

Leila
Peter Weibel's headshot

Peter Weibel

Mr. Maehrsch
Judith Flex's headshot

Judith Flex

Judith

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