Verführung: Die grausame Frau

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Presented in SINema Lust for Erotic Film Art

With a surprise pre-program and a glass of crémant to welcome you

Monika Treut's groundbreaking debut film VERFÜHRUNG DIE GRAUSAME FRAU from 1985 tells the story of the mysterious dominatrix and clever businesswoman Wanda. Her profession is to be cruel, and her specialty is to lure her lovers into the trap of seduction. In her gallery in the port of Hamburg, she stages bizarre stage shows: sadomasochistic rituals as an aesthetic form and profitable business. She is also a sovereign ruler in her private life: she determines the rules of pleasure that her lovers have to follow. Her slavish stage partner Gregor, a romantic crush, falls in love with Wanda. Her docile pupil Justin, an innocent from America, soon realizes that seduction is a devilishly sophisticated game. The journalist Mr. Mährsch actually wants to interview Wanda until he discovers her masochistic character and her desire to be Wanda's toilet. Only Caren, the lesbian girlfriend and eccentric businesswoman, suffers. That's why she has to be excluded from the game because the show must go on.

In 2024, we celebrate Monika Treut, who has been shaping queer cinema in Germany and around the world with her lustfully subversive feature films and documentaries for more than 40 years now. As a central figure in the independent German film scene, she went to the USA at the end of the 1980s and, with her convention-critical approach and progressive perspective on lesbian and gay sexuality, gave decisive impetus to the emerging New Queer Cinema.

"Seduction" tells the story of the mysterious dominatrix and clever businesswoman Wanda. Her profession is to be cruel and her specialty is to lure her lovers into the trap of seduction. In her gallery in the port of Hamburg, she stages bizarre stage shows: sadomasochistic rituals as an aesthetic form and profitable business. She is also a sovereign ruler in her private life: she determines the rules of pleasure that her lovers have to follow. Her slavish stage partner Gregor, a romantic crush, falls in love with Wanda. Her docile pupil Justin, an innocent from America, soon realizes that seduction is a devilishly sophisticated game. The journalist Mr. Mährsch actually wants to interview Wanda until he discovers her masochistic character and her desire to be Wanda's toilet. Only Caren, the lesbian girlfriend and eccentric businesswoman, suffers. That's why she has to be excluded from the game - because the show must go on. (Source: distributor)

Germany 1984; Director: Monika Treut

Actors: Mechthild Großmann and others

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