The Garden of Torture
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1975
French release06/10/1976
Runtime1 h 30 min
Synopsis
Combining softcore pornography and historical romance, this film tells the story of a Antoine, a physician (Roger Van Hool) who, in 1888, has been exiled to China due to his drug habit. On the way there, he gets to know a polymorphously perverse girl (Jacqueline Kerry) who becomes his girlfriend. She is the daughter of a local colonial overlord in Canton, whose cruelty and brutality are legendary. Based on a novel by Octave Mirbeau, this film parallels Antoine's descent into erotic obsession with the increasing degeneracy and precariousness of colonial rule.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (15)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Stephan-Films, Alexia Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : StudioCanal Films Limited, Wide
- French distribution : Parafrance
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producers : Véra Belmont, Jean-Pierre Rawson
- Adaptation : Pascal Lainé
- Dialogue Writer : Pascal Lainé
- Director of Photography : Lionel Legros
- Music Composer : Jean-Pierre Doering
- Assistant Director : Philippe Malherbe
- Editor : Anne-Marie Deshayes
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Befve
- Costume designers : Denis Epstein, Georges Bril
- Author of original work : Octave Mirbeau
- Assistant Operator : Georgy Fromentin
- Production manager : Linda Gutenberg
- Assistant editors : Roland Baubeau, Annick Breuil
- Continuity supervisor : Odile Margerand
- Production Designer : Hubert Monloup
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Hennequin
- Unit Production Managers : Philippe Allaire, Jean-Luc Ormières
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation
- Themes : Eroticism
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1975
- French release : 06/10/1976
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 44958
- Visa issue date : 20/07/1976
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
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