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Director:
Walerian Borowczyk
Writer:
Walerian Borowczyk (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
15 April 1977 (USA) more
Plot:
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son... more | add synopsis
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Absolutely unique arthouse porn farce! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Sirpa Lane ... Romilda de l'Esperance
Lisbeth Hummel ... Lucy Broadhurst
Elisabeth Kaza ... Virginia Broadhurst
Pierre Benedetti ... Mathurin de l'Esperance
Guy Tréjan ... Pierre de l'Esperance
Roland Armontel ... Priest
Marcel Dalio ... Duc Rammendelo De Balo (as Dalio)
Robert Capia ... Roberto Capia
Pascale Rivault ... Clarisse De l'Esperance
Hassane Fall
Anna Baldaccini
Thierry Bourdon
Mathieu Rivollier
Julien Hanany
Marie Testanière
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Death's Ecstacy (USA) (censored version)
The Beast (USA)
The Beast in Heat
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Runtime:
93 min | Australia:98 min (1977 cinema release)
Country:
France
Language:
French | Italian
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Sweden:15 | Sweden:15 (uncut) | Australia:R (2007) (uncut) | New Zealand:R18 | New Zealand:(Banned) (2002) | Australia:R (original rating) | France:-16 | Netherlands:18 | UK:18 | USA:X
Company:
Argos Films more

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Edited into Caligula et Messaline (1981) more

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10 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Absolutely unique arthouse porn farce!, 27 May 2002
Author: Infofreak from Perth, Australia

Banned for twenty odd years 'The Beast' has finally been unleashed, and believe me it is a movie quite unlike any other! This is a profoundly bizarre mixture of arthouse and grindhouse that is on the surface massively offensive (in a word - bestiality), but is presented in such a ludicrous fashion that the only genuine reaction is to laugh hysterically. The sequences involving the Beast which made the film notorious are only a small part of the whole. In fact it is the contrast between the Beastly and non-Beastly stories that make this movie so strange and difficult to explain. I don't know exactly what director Borowczwk was aiming for, and I'm not sure he did either. But if he was going for a strange mixture of the Gothic, the surreal and hysterical porno comedy he certainly succeeded!

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