Vice & virtue
Title:
Vice & virtue
Author:
Vadim, Roger, film director, screenwriter.
Publication Information:
New York : Kino Classics : Kino Lorber [2015]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
General Note:
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).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Language:
French
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UPC:
738329162528
Format :
DVD
