Prisoner of Passion

Film
  • Lisa Mopurgo
  • Eriprando Visconti[1]
Story byEriprando ViscontiProduced byMarcello D'Amico[1]Starring
  • Michele Placido
  • Rena Niehaus
  • Flavio Bucci
CinematographyBlasco Giurato[1]Edited byFranco Arcalli[1]Music byFederico Monti Arduini[1]
Production
company
Serena Film '75[1]
Distributed byVariety Distribution
Running time
101 minutes[1]CountryItaly[1]

Prisoner of Passion (Italian: La Orca) is an Italian film directed by Eriprando Visconti. The film was followed with the sequel Oedipus Orca.[2]

Cast

  • Michele Placido: Michele
  • Rena Niehaus: Alice
  • Carmen Scarpitta: Irene, Alice's mother
  • Lisa Morpurgo: Elisa
  • Flavio Bucci: Gino
  • Bruno Corazzari: Paolo

Production

In reference to the scene in which Rena Niehaus has her vagina fingered explicitly by Michele Placido, the actress said she was not clear what the scene would be like because she couldn't speak Italian.[3]

Reception

From a contemporary review, David Badder wrote in the Monthly Film Bulletin that the film was "slowly paced and directed with no commitment to character or theme, it is difficult to detect any compelling motive behind Prisoner of Passion."[1] Badder continued that "the sex scenes remain wholly unerotic because their premise, that Alice uses her worldliness to overcome and then exploit the innocent peasant, is insufficiently defined."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Badder 1978, p. 93.
  2. ^ Curti 2019, p. 74.
  3. ^ "Interview mit Rena Niehaus". christiankessler.de. Archived from the original on 2004-01-08. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

Sources

  • Badder, David (May 1978). "Orca, La (Prisoner of Passion)". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 45, no. 532. The British Film Institute.
  • Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.

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