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Release Date:
28 May 1985 (USA)
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Only one film could top the intensity of CHAINED HEAT. This is it!
Plot:
An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East...
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Interrogation
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Prison
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Cross Border
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Average women-in-prison exploiter
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Linda Blair | ... | Christine Carlson | |
| Sylvia Kristel | ... | Sofia | |
| Sue Kiel | ... | Hedda | |
| William Ostrander | ... | Mike | |
| Elisabeth Volkmann | ... | Einbeck | |
| Albert Fortell | ... | Ernst | |
| Herb Andress | ... | Werner | |
| Barbara Spitz | ... | Meg | |
| Kati Marothy | ... | Barbara | |
| Dagmar Schwarz | ... | Lillian | |
| Sissy Weiner | ... | Uta | |
| Norbert Blecha | ... | Kurt | |
| Sonja Martin | ... | Evelyn | |
| Evelyn Engleder | ... | Eva | |
| John Brett | ... | Roger |
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Also Known As:
Red Heat - Unschuld hinter Gittern (West Germany)
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USA:104 min
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Canada:R (Nova Scotia) |
Iceland:16 |
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) |
France:-12 |
Norway:18 (video rating) |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:18 |
Norway:16
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'Linda Blair' broke her leg while filming. She had to complete the film, including chase scenes in the sewers of Vienna, wearing a cast.
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Factual errors: The GDR used white license plates, not black ones.
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Referenced in "Psych: The Devil Is in the Details... And the Upstairs Bedroom (#4.4)" (2009)
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An average women-in-prison exploiter, but for a change it is set in East Germany during the period of the cold war. Remarkable are a couple of casting choices: Elisabeth Volkmann, best known from numerous silly sex comedies and the TV sketch series "Klimbim" plays the tough warden, and the usually so vulnerable Sylvia Kristel plays the inmates' top bitch (in a red wig), the kind of role normally played by the likes of Pam Grier or Sybil Danning. Volkmann has enough acting range to pull it off, but Kristel is completely and utterly miscast.
Otherwise, this follows the genre rules extremely faithfully. We have all the compulsary ingredients: shower scenes, mistreatments by the staff, cat fights, revolts, escapes, etc. Virtually a remake of Chained Heat.