Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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

자신의 연극에 출연할 여배우를 찾지 못하던 주인공이 배역에 적합한 여자를 만나게 되면서 벌어지는 이야기를 그린 영화

영화감독 민수는 우연히 만난 주원의 육감적이고 고혹적인 매력에 빠져들고 그녀의 집에서 시나리오 작업을 하며 함께 지낼 것을 제안 받는다. 거대한 성과도 같은 으리으리한 그녀의 집에는 난쟁이 집사가 함께 사는데 민수에겐 가시 같은 존재다. 함께 살면서도 좀처럼 정체를 드러내지 않는 그녀는 점점 미스터리함을 더해가는 가운데 민수는 그녀의 매력에 빠져 그녀가 시키는대로 마조히즘적인 행동을 서슴지 않게 된다. 거부할 수 없는 매력의 여인과 그녀를 사랑하며 온갖 학대와 폭력에도 행복을 느끼는 남자. 고립된 성에서 벌어지는 그들의 기괴한 사랑과 죽음, 증오와 살인, 욕망과 형벌은 더욱 충격적인 결말을 향해가는데...

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.

Female mistress and male slave caught in a circle of tension.

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.

Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. Both spouses have lovers and, in the end, the marriage ends in divorce.

Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.

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.