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Les infortunes de la vertu

Original title: Marquis de Sade: Justine
  • 1969
  • 18
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
2.2K
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Les infortunes de la vertu (1969)
Period DramaTragedyDrama

Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.

  • Director
    • Jesús Franco
  • Writers
    • Marquis de Sade
    • Harry Alan Towers
    • Arpad DeRiso
  • Stars
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Romina Power
    • Maria Rohm
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.1/10
    2.2K
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    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Marquis de Sade
      • Harry Alan Towers
      • Arpad DeRiso
    • Stars
      • Klaus Kinski
      • Romina Power
      • Maria Rohm
    • 39User reviews
    • 45Critic reviews
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    Klaus Kinski
    Klaus Kinski
    • Le marquis de Sade
    • (as Klaus Kinsky)
    Romina Power
    Romina Power
    • Justine
    Maria Rohm
    Maria Rohm
    • Juliette
    Rosemary Dexter
    Rosemary Dexter
    • Claudine
    Carmen de Lirio
    Carmen de Lirio
    • Madame de Buisson
    Akim Tamiroff
    Akim Tamiroff
    • Du Harpin
    Gustavo Re
    Gustavo Re
    • Desroches
    Mercedes McCambridge
    Mercedes McCambridge
    • Madame Dusbois
    Serena Vergano
    Serena Vergano
    • Prisoner
    José Manuel Martín
    José Manuel Martín
    • Victor
    • (as José Manuel Martin)
    Mike Brendel
    • Pierre
    Harald Leipnitz
    Harald Leipnitz
    • Raymond
    Horst Frank
    Horst Frank
    • Le marquis de Bressac
    Angel Petit
    • Jasmin
    Sylva Koscina
    Sylva Koscina
    • La marquise de Bressac
    Howard Vernon
    Howard Vernon
    • Frère Clément
    Jack Palance
    Jack Palance
    • Antonin
    Rosalba Neri
    Rosalba Neri
    • Florette
    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Marquis de Sade
      • Harry Alan Towers
      • Arpad DeRiso
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    5Red-Barracuda

    Oddball de Sade adaption from Jesus Franco

    This is one of the ultra-prolific Spanish director Jesus Franco's biggest budget movies, from a period in his career where he took an actual bit of care (i.e. There is actual editing in this one). It's a story based on the notorious 18th century novel by the Marquis de Sade, it tells the story of a couple of Parisian orphan girls. Juliette becomes a prostitute and marries a rich noble, while Justine goes down a purer path but winds up sent to prison for a murder she didn't commit, ends up escaping and encountering a succession of shady characters. There's not a bad cast in this one, with everyone's favourite German with a personality disorder, Klaus Kinski as de Sade (I am guessing this role suited Kinski down to the ground as I don't think he had any lines to learn), Eurotrash babes Maria Rohm, Sylva Koscina and Rosalba Neri appear in various parts, with Jack Palance also appearing in a very strange role indeed. While this is a very uneven movie, it does benefit from its episodic nature, meaning its pacing is not too bad. It could be described under the specific grouping known as literary sexploitation, i.e. Sexploitation for people who read books.
    6EVOL666

    Somewhat Entertaining, But Relatively Un-Sleazy Sleaze Film...

    Jess Franco's interpretation of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, seems a bit tame for my taste. I really wasn't expecting much going into this (it IS Jess Franco, after all...) so I can't say I was that disappointed. I was expecting a pretty average sleaze film, and that's what I got...

    Justine and her sister are banished from a private school when their father dies and leaves them no money for tuition. The one sister goes to a whorehouse to work, Justine decides that ain't her thing. The rest of the film is pretty much comprised of Justine being subjected to different forms of exploitation that would have been way worse than what she would have experienced in the whorehouse...

    Nothing really notable about JUSTINE, other than the beautiful women that show far too little skin. Don't get me wrong - there is nudity in the film - even some brief full-frontal - but it's never long enough or in the right situation to be arousing or memorable. The acting is decent - the sets and costumes are very well done, and the story is relatively entertaining - but it tends to drag. It actually took me three viewings to watch it all the way through, because I kept falling asleep (though I partially blame that on the bourbon...). Not a horrible film, worth a look to exploit fans, just don't expect too much...6/10
    5campblood13

    An enjoyable sweeping epic. maybe

    I went into this film expecting lots of nudity and bad acting, as it turned out I got the opposite of both. The star of the film Romina Power is wonderful as well as beautiful. Some other reviewers have said she appeared dull and uninterested, but I don't think that is the case. I think her spaced out look was a cunning ploy to take advantage of situations when needed. Of course she was a virgin and untrusting of men which also lead to her innocence.

    The beautiful setting and costumes should have won the Academy Award. :) Look for Jack Palance over-acting as a sexual deviant monk, who attempts to free young Justine. Jack and his fellow monks are studying the power of PLEASURE!!! They should have shown this at the Academy Awards the year after Palance won for City Slickers, and the whole place would have fell down laughing. I liked this movie, the uncut version runs 2 hours on DVD and is well worth it. I never got bored with the film. 5/10 Average, but better than I thought it would be.
    2zBirdman

    [insert sound of cat coughing up hairball here]

    In a word; terrible. The actual story "Justine" is a somewhat perverted morality tale that has a very shrewd understory; de Sade is well known in spite of his fascination with the perverse - he truly was a gifted wordsmith.

    Would that the same could be said of Franco's "Justine". According to Franco on the short interview included on the DVD, Romina Power was basically forced on him to be the "star", and he does not hide his disgust at her performance in the interview. Franco didn't want her, Power didn't seem to care either way (he said she rarely even knew when the camera was rolling; basically, she'd have a hard time even playing convincing furniture) and to things even better, Romina's Mom tagged along.

    If you're looking for S&M, you're not going to find it here. If you're looking for nudity, you will find it here, but you quickly won't care. If you're interested in the Marquis de Sade, you won't learn anything about him by watching this. If you're on Death Row with two hours left, then this truly is the film for you; but all others should really steer clear.

    Klaus Kinski was listed as the star of the film in Europe, and yet he speaks no lines and interacts with none of the other characters in the film. The first few minutes of the film (around 10 minutes, but it seemed like 30) show Kinski as the Marquis. He appears to be swimming in a sea of writing compulsions and drifting beyond the bounds of reality, or he's simply in dire need of a strong laxative. Either way, his segments are interspersed throughout the film, and they add absolutely nothing.

    Jack Palance is wildly flamboyant, but it's hard to tell what the heck is going on with him anyway. In one particularly bizarre sequence he's gliding around on some sort of a wheeled dolly like a wax statue. According to Franco, Palance was always drunk, but he was pleased with his performance as Antonin.

    It's not erotic. It's not sensual. It's not alluring. My wife and I watched it anticipating something like "The Story of O", but ended up with "The Story of O No". Definitely NOT recommended.
    doktor d

    Worth viewing, but it's not the film Franco intended

    'Marquis de Sade's 'Justine'' (1968) is easily Jess Franco's most accomplished film, esp. from a technical standpoint, backed by the biggest budget he would ever have. Rich, brilliant colors, skin aplenty, a few perversities, and strange performances from Klaus Kinski, Jack Palance and Mercedes Mccambridge make for an entertaining but relatively tame Franco outing. To boot, Jack Palance's performance ranks as possibly the most bizarre ever seen on film. The dvd includes a revealing 20-minute 'making of' documentary featuring an extensive, contemporary interview with director Franco, and he doesn't hold back. Franco states that Palance was sauced during the entire shoot, drinking red wine all day, each day, starting around 7a.m.

    Kinski's role (as de Sade) was originally handed to Orson Welles, but once Welles read the script, he claimed that he simply could not play the part because it included scenes of erotica. In reality, Welles would have had to do a scene with several totally naked women, and this may have made him uncomfortable and nervous. Interestingly, the de Sade character has no lines, and Kinski's scenes are just a bunch of cutaways of him sitting/pacing in a prison cell, mentally tortured, trying to write 'Justine'.

    Franco intended to create an explicitly nasty, masochistic film faithful to de Sade's writing; however, according to Franco, he was forced into a watered-down, `Snow-White-lost-in-the-woods' direction because of the producer's decision to cast Tyrone Power's daughter, Romina Power, in the title role. `She was a passenger, wandering around,' Franco scoffed. `She was like a piece of furniture. It was as if I was making Bambi 2'. The role was intended for Rosemary Dexter, who appears in the film in a lesser role.

    Franco's version of 'Justine' is not as grim or as depressing as Chris Boger's 'Cruel Passion' (1977), starring Koo Stark, but it's also not as nasty or as perverse. Too bad for Franco fans. --- david ross smith

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    • Trivia
      In an interview on the Anchor Bay DVD release Jesús Franco says he originally wanted Rosemary Dexter as Justine, but the American partners in the film insisted upon Romina Power. Franco compared her performance to a window dummy.
    • Goofs
      The sound we hear on the soundtrack (at c. 26 minutes) is clearly the spanking of bare flesh but the film shows that the blows only strike clothed buttocks.
    • Quotes

      Juliette: To do evil is not dangerous as long as is not found.

    • Connections
      Featured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #2.2 (1972)
    • Soundtracks
      Plaisir d'Amour
      (uncredited)

      Music by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

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    • Release date
      • March 4, 1970 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Liechtenstein
      • West Germany
      • Italy
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • Latin
    • Also known as
      • Justine de Sade
    • Filming locations
      • Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc, Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain(Bressac's castle)
    • Production companies
      • Etablissement Sargon
      • Corona Filmproduktion
      • Aica Cinematografica S.R.L
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    • Budget
      • $150,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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