The Laughing Woman
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The Laughing Woman | |
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Directed by | Piero Schivazappa |
Written by | Piero Schivazappa |
Starring | Philippe Leroy Dagmar Lassander |
Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Laughing Woman, also known as Femina ridens (Latin for "laughing woman") is a 1969 Italian thriller film directed by Piero Schivazappa.[1][2]
Plot[]
Doctor Sayer, esteemed director of a philanthropic institute, hides a misogynistic and sexophobic personality that he gives vent to on weekends, engaging in sadistic games in his isolated villa in the company of professionals who are expert in satisfying similar inclinations and staging their death in the manner more imaginative.
Taking advantage of the visit of one of his employees, Mary, he decides to go from fiction to reality, imprisoning the woman and subjecting her to physical and psychological torture, which culminate in the threat of killing her in an atrocious way, as he claims to have already done many times by showing her the photos of the alleged previous victims.
After leading the woman to the point of attempting suicide to escape her torments, Sayer realizes that he is unable to kill her and that he has developed feelings towards her he has never felt before, so he reveals to her that he is not really a killer and being interested in her. Mary declares herself willing to reciprocate and help him develop a healthy relationship with women, but these are not at all her intentions: in reality the woman was never a victim, she set a trap from the beginning for Sayer, letting herself be captured on purpose and now, after forcing him to show his weakness and giving him a short-lived romance, she kills him during intercourse, as the man had always feared.
Cast[]
- Philippe Leroy: Doctor Sayer
- Dagmar Lassander: Mary
- Lorenza Guerrieri: Gida
- : Administrator
- Maria Cumani Quasimodo: Sayer's Secretary
- : Streetwalker
Soundtrack[]
Femina Ridens | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 1969 |
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Label | CAM |
The soundtrack to the film was composed by Stelvio Cipriani and released in 1969.
Track listing[]
Side A[]
- Week-End With Mary
- Love Symbol
- Hot Skin
- Chorus And Brass "Fugato"
- Rendez-Vous In The Castle
- Sophisticated Shake
Side B[]
- "Femina Ridens" Song
- Mary's Theme
- The Shower
- The Run In The Alley
- Fight Of Love
References[]
External links[]
- 1969 films
- Italian-language films
- 1960s thriller films
- Italian films
- BDSM in films
- Italian erotic thriller films
- Films directed by Piero Schivazappa
- Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani
- 1960s Italian film stubs
- 1960s thriller film stubs