Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

"We have a named for fantasy realized: nightmare". Adapted from Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch's "Venus in furs".

En un teatro parisino, después de un duro día de audiciones para el papel del nuevo proyecto, Thomas se lamenta al teléfono por el poco empeño e interés que han mostrado los candidatos que se han presentado. Nadie tiene el nivel necesario para asumir el liderazgo del reparto y Thomas se está preparando para salir cuando aparece Vanda, un torbellino de energía desenfrenada y descarada. Vanda tiene todo lo que odia Thomas. Es vulgar, sin cerebro y no se detendrá ante nada hasta conseguir el papel. Thomas le da una oportunidad para mostrar su talento y Vanda le sorprende con una increíble metamorfosis. Provista de accesorios y disfraces, entiende a la perfección el personaje y ha memorizado cada línea del guion. Mientras la prueba se alarga, la intensidad entre ellos se incrementa y la atracción se convierte en una obsesión para el joven.

Film director Hyun encounters a mysterious woman and asks her to be his muse. Intrigued with his daring proposal, she accepts. Soon she invites him to her villa in the country to give him some isolated space to write his screenplay. But her masochistic acts slowly consume his desire and longing. He bears escalating humiliation and pain that are inflicted on him for the sake of being with her and ultimately signs over his life to her as her slave.

A visceral examination of the social contract between the governed and the government, the play explores Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Six Houses of Bondage: Love, Money, Property, State, War and Death, with a seventh meditation on Revolutionary Change. "Seven Meditations..." was created in 1973 by Julian Beck, Judith Malina & Friends.

While still living in Amsterdam under his birth name 'Ian Kerkhof,' Aryan Kaganof co-penned the script for his friends Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's debut feature Venus in Furs (1995), which is undoubtedly the most faithful cinematic adaptation of the S&M-themed Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novella of the same name. A number of years later after moving back to his homeland of South Africa, Kaganof directed his own tribute to Sacher-Masoch's classic work.

El protagonista, Severin von Kusiemski, cuenta la historia de su relación con Wanda von Dunajew, al narrador de la historia, después de que éste a su vez le contara su conversación en sueños con una Venus cubierta de pieles, posiblemente inspirada por el cuadro colgado en el despacho de Severin, que retrata a ésta Venus y su sirviente. Severin cuenta como se había enamorado de una mujer, Wanda von Dunajew, a la que extorsiona para conseguir que le trate como su esclavo, en formas cada vez más humillantes.

Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate BDSM fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American "trainee," and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.

Sadomasoquismo, látigo y sexo anal forman parte del ritual sexual del Varon Von Masoch, un hombre que sorprendió a la sociedad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Sigue las pervertidas pasiones de una pareja, la de Severin y Wanda, cuando el primero se enamora de la segunda tras observarla desnuda vistiéndose con pieles. Esta perturbadora historia de vouyeurismo desemboca en un torrente de emociones provocada por un episodio infantil que lleva a Severin a confundir el placer con el dolor.

A muscular hunk works selling shoes, but has a very overactive imagination. He falls asleep while reading "Venus in Furs" and dreams of Venus herself, speaking to him in poetry while he caresses her feet and waits on her as a servant. He also stares at women on the subway and imagines kissing and making love to them. After spending his day waiting on beautiful flirtatious women on his knees, he picks up Marna, a mysterious woman in the library, who invites him to her secluded mansion to join her assorted other guests for a weekend of sensual depravity.