Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Seduction: The Cruel Woman DVD cover

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

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[]

•  [de] as Wanda
• Udo Kier as Gregor
• Sheila McLaughlin as Justine
•  [de] as Caren
• Peter Weibel as Herr Maehrsch
•  [de] as Friederike

See also[]

• Sadism and masochism in fiction

External links[]

• Seduction: The Cruel Woman at IMDb

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