Le vice et la vertu / un film de Roger Vadim ; scénario de Roger Vailland et Roger Vadim ; collaboration à l'adaptation, Claude Choublier ; une réalisation Gaumont International ; producteur délégué, Alain Poiré ; une co-production franco-italienne S.N.E. Gaumont (Paris), Trianon productions (Paris), Ultra Films (Rome).
Publisher:
Kino Classics,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse, Valeria Ciangottini, Philippel Lemaire, Luciana Paluzzi. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963. Includes theatrical trailer. Container indicates sound mono but sound is LPCM stereo. Inspired by three novels of the Marquis de Sade: Justine, ou, Les malheurs de la vertu (originally published in 1791), La nouvelle Justine (originally published in 1797), and Histoire de Juliette, ou, Les prospérités du vice (originally published in 1797). Wide screen (2.35:1).
Summary:
Two sisters, Juliette and Justine, take opposite paths during the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II. Juliette is a collaborator, while Justine supports the resistance movement. Justine is arrested and deported to a mysterious castle that is a brothel for Nazi officers. Juliette, the mistress of an SS colonel, finds Justine and tries to help her escape. But Justine wants to suffer the same fate as her fellow prisoners.
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