Le jardin des supplices (1976)
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Roger Van Hool, Jacqueline Kerry, Tony Taffin, Ysabelle Lacamp
A French doctor fleeing a sordid affair meets the seductive daughter of a powerful businessman aboard a ship bound for China amid prerevolutionary unrest.
The story
In 1926, French doctor Antoine Durrieu must flee France after becoming compromised in a sordid affair. On a ship bound for China amid prerevolutionary unrest, he meets Clara Greenhill, the seductive daughter of a powerful and unscrupulous businessman. Fascinated by Clara, Antoine is drawn to her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
It is 1926—one third of a century after the events of Mirbeau’s novel—and a young French doctor, Antoine Durrieu, compromised in a sordid affair, has to flee France. On the ship taking him to China, which is in the throes of prerevolutionary unrest, he meets the seductive and perverse Clara Greenhill (in Mirbeau’s novel, her surname is never given), the daughter of a powerful and unscrupulous businessman. Fascinated by her, he one day lets her lead him to a mysterious garden, where he discovers with horror that she takes pleasure in watching slaves being tortured.
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