A Woman in Flames (film)

A Woman in Flames Die flambierte Frau, literally The Flambed Woman is a German drama film from 1983, directed by Robert van Ackeren, starring Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrire, and Hanns Zischler. The film was selected as the West German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Then slowly Eva enters the world of sadomasochism. She finds being a dominatrix extremely satisfying, and begins to take pleasure in controlling others and causing them intense pain. She discovers this in a scene in which a man is hiding under a table. Eva can see that his hands are sticking out from under the table and are clearly visible. Coldly, and with intense inner satisfaction, Eva proceeds to crush the mans hands by slowly walking over them with her stilettoheeled boots.Chris, the gigolo, becomes jealous of her and wants to know whats going on upstairs and how she is making so much money. She tells him it is from hurting men, and that the more she hurts them, the more money she gets. This upsets him greatly. She also becomes jealous of his boyfriendclient, a man who has been coming to him for many years. The scenes in the upstairs room intensify. One day he sneaks up and observes her in a scene dominating a man tied to a chair. He has a look on his face like see, this is what you truly are, and the look on her face says proudly yes, this is what I truly am. He tries to whisk her away from all of it, buying her furs, talking about marriage. She tells him that shes been dreaming about hitting him, and in the dream he likes it. ........

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