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4.3/10   333 votes
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Writers:
Robert Collector (writer)
Gary Drucker (writer)
Release Date:
28 May 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Thriller more
Tagline:
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... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Average women-in-prison exploiter more (6 total)

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Red Heat - Unschuld hinter Gittern (West Germany)
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Runtime:
USA:104 min
Country:
West Germany | USA | Austria
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
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
Filming Locations:
Mafilm, Budapest, Hungary more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Linda Blair' broke her leg while filming. She had to complete the film, including chase scenes in the sewers of Vienna, wearing a cast. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The GDR used white license plates, not black ones. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Psych: The Devil Is in the Details... And the Upstairs Bedroom (#4.4)" (2009) more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Average women-in-prison exploiter, 3 February 1999
6/10
Author: Stefan Kahrs from Canterbury, England

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.

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