De Sade

He made evil an art, virtue a vice... and pain a pleasure!

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

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Keir Dullea

(Marquis de Sade)

Senta Berger

(Anne de Montreuil)

Lilli Palmer

(Mme. de Montreuil)

Anna Massey

(Renée de Montreuil)

Sonja Ziemann

(La Beauvoisin)

Christiane Krüger

(Laura)

Uta Levka

(Rose Keller)

Barbara Stanek

(Colette)

Susanne von Almassy

(Marquis' Mother)

Friedrich Schoenfelder

(Marquis' Father)

Herbert Weißbach

(M. de Montreuil)

Heinz Spitzner

(Inspector Marais)

Tilly Lauenstein

(Madame Grandcon)

Ortrud Gross

John Huston

(The Abbe)

Max Kiebach

(Marquis de Sade as a Boy)

Maria Caleita

(Marie (uncredited))

Barboura Morris

(Nun (uncredited))

Anke Syring

(Prostitute in Orgy (uncredited))

Evelyne Traeger

(Prostitute in Orgy (uncredited))