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Immoral Tales (1974)
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk
Overview
Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, ‘The Tide’, is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. ‘Therese Philosophe’ is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. ‘Erzsebet Bathory’ is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.
Rated NR | Length 125 minutes
Actors
Lise Danvers | Fabrice Luchini | Charlotte Alexandra | Lisbeth Hummel | Paloma Picasso | Pascale Christophe | Florence Bellamy | Lorenzo Berinizi | Jacopo Berinizi | Philippe Desboeuf | Tomas Hnevsa | Mathieu Rivolier | Robert Capia | Gerard Tcherka | Kjell Gustavsson | Nicole Karen | Marie Forså | Florence Dauman | Sirpa Lane