Marquis de Sade: Justine
Marquis de Sade Justine Italian Justine ovvero le disavventure della virt is a 1969 West GermanItalian film directed by Jess Franco. The film is based on Justine by the Marquis de Sade. The film is set in 1700s France where Justine Romina Power and her sister Juliet Maria Rohm are orphans in Paris. Juliet becomes a prostitute and marries a rich noble. Justine is falsely arrested and sentenced to death. Justine escapes from prison to become a fugitive.
The film is narrated by a man as he is in a prison and hallucinating images of naked, tortured women.Justine, a sweet and virtuous girl lives with her sister Juliette in a nunnery. When they learn of their fathers death, they are booted out of the nunnery with their fathers remaining gold. Juliette takes Justine to a friend, Madame de Buission, who could provide accommodation for the two girls. De Buisson turns out to be a brothel owner and requires the girls to work as prostitutes to pay for the accommodation. Justine refuses and leaves the brothel with her gold while Juliette stays and learns the arts of a prostitute. Justine meets a priest who offers to keep her gold safe and return it at the church the next day, should she reside with Monsieur du Harpin. Du Harpin does not know the priest however, but agrees to let Justine stay for free if she agrees to serve as a maid. ........
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