# Emanuelle's Revenge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Emanuelle's_Revenge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Emanuelle's_Revenge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuelle's_Revenge > Source revision: 1329705913 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1975 Italian film Emanuelle's Revenge Directed by Joe D'Amato Screenplay by Bruno Mattei Joe D'Amato Produced by Joe D'Amato[1] Starring George Eastman Rosemarie Lindt Patricia Gori Karole Annie Edel Cinematography Joe D'Amato[1] Edited by Vincenzo Vanni[1] Music by Gianni Marchetti Production company Matra Cinematografica[2] Distributed by Variety Distribution Release date 1975 (1975) Running time 96 minutes[1] Country Italy ***Emanuelle's Revenge*** ([Italian](/source/Italian_language): *Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline*, [lit.](/source/Literal_translation) 'Emanuelle and Francene, the Sisters', released in the UK as ***Emanuelle and Francoise***) is an Italian film directed by [Joe D'Amato](/source/Joe_D'Amato). It is a [remake](/source/Remake) of the Greek film *The Wild Pussycat* (1969).[3][4] Unlike the [French Emmanuelle series](/source/Emmanuelle), to which it refers only in name, *Emanuelle's Revenge* has been described as being close to a sex-themed [giallo](/source/Giallo),[5] or as a combination of several genres: the [rape and revenge film](/source/Rape_and_revenge_film), the [splatter film](/source/Splatter_film), the erotic film and the thriller.[6] The film was written by [Bruno Mattei](/source/Bruno_Mattei) and D'Amato.[1] Bruno Mattei co-directed the film with D'Amato, but only D'Amato was credited.[7] ## Plot A young woman named Francoise, who is abused and degraded by her gambler-husband Carlo, eventually kills herself by jumping in front of a train. Her sister Emanuelle avenges Francoise's death by drugging Carlo and chaining him in a hidden soundproof room with a two-way mirror, and torturing him by having sex with various men and women in front of the mirror, making him watch the torrid goings on without being able to participate. She also injects him with LSD and causes him to hallucinate scenes of cannibalistic orgies. While he is still locked in the hidden room, Carlo also hallucinates hacking Emanuelle to death with a meat cleaver. As the [coup de grace](/source/Coup_de_grace) of her plan, Emanuelle enters the room and attempts to castrate Carlo with a scalpel, at which point he breaks free of his bonds and chases her around the house. Carlo eventually catches Emanuelle and butchers her in real life on her living room rug, when suddenly the police arrive at the house, alerted to the melee by a neighbor. Carlo retreats back into the hidden room and seals himself in to evade the police while they check the crime scene for evidence and cart poor Emanuelle off to the morgue, not realizing the killer is hiding behind the two-way mirror in the living room. Emanuelle's real revenge over Carlo occurs after her death, when Carlo realizes he locked himself in the hidden room without any water or food and the police have locked up the house as a crime scene for 30 days. ## Cast - [Rosemarie Lindt](/source/Rosemarie_Lindt) as [Emanuelle](/source/Emanuelle) - [George Eastman](/source/George_Eastman_(actor)) as Carlo - Patrizia Gori as Françoise (credited as Francene) - Annie Carol Edel as Mira (credited as Karole Annie Edel) - Maria Rosaria Riuzzi as Pamela (credited as Mary Kristal) - [Massimo Vanni](/source/Massimo_Vanni) as Robi - Eolo Capritti as Bald Film Producer (credited as Al Capri)[3] - Giorgio Fieri as Alfredo (credited as Giorgio Fleri) - [Luciano Rossi](/source/Luciano_Rossi) as Card Player (uncredited)[3] - [Brigitte Lahaie](/source/Brigitte_Lahaie) (added scenes found in German cut only) ## Production According to [Bruno Mattei](/source/Bruno_Mattei), the idea for the film was born when producer Franco Gaudenzi wanted to distribute a Greek pornographic film by Dimis Dadiras entitled *The Wild Pussycat*. Due to its explicit nature, the film would not have passed Italian censorship, which led to D'Amato and Mattei deciding to shoot a remake of it.[3][8][9] Parts of the score in *Emanuelle's Revenge* were reused from [Gianni Marchetti](/source/Gianni_Marchetti)'s music for *[The Last Desperate Hours](/source/The_Last_Desperate_Hours)*[10] and *[Summer Affair](/source/Summer_Affair)* (*Il sole nella pelle*).[11] ## Release *Emanuelle's Revenge* passed the Italian censorship board on November 5, 1975.[12] According to Marco Giusti, some scenes of lesbian and anal intercourse were removed.[7] In 1978, [Erwin C. Dietrich](/source/Erwin_C._Dietrich) bought the film, reedited it adding [hardcore](/source/Hardcore_pornography) inserts with [Brigitte Lahaie](/source/Brigitte_Lahaie), dubbed it into German and replaced the original music with a score by [Walter Baumgartner](/source/Walter_Baumgartner). This version was released under the German title *Foltergarten der Sinnlichkeit* (literally: Torture garden of sensuality).[5][6][7][13] A VHS-release of this version was titled *Die Lady mit der Pussycat*.[14] ## Reception In a contemporary review, David Badder (*[Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/Monthly_Film_Bulletin)*) stated that the film had characters that eschewed "any believable motivation", that "deadly dull sex scenes irritatingly tricked out with arty-crafty camera work, almost guaranteed to send the bulk of his frustrated audience into a deep sleep" and that the film was "burdened with a crushingly pretentious score".[1] The review negatively compared D'Amato's work to that of Italian genre filmmakers [Dario Argento](/source/Dario_Argento) and [Riccardo Freda](/source/Riccardo_Freda), stating that he had "none of [their] inspirational touches".[1] In his 1999 book on the film's director Joe D'Amato, Antonio Tentori found that it skilfully combined eros and horror.[15] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-mfb-review_1-6) Badder, David (1977). "Emanuelle and Francoise "(Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline)"". *[Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/Monthly_Film_Bulletin)*. Vol. 44, no. 516. [British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute). p. 232. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-archivo_2-0)** ["Emanuelle e Françoise, *le sorelline* (1975)"](http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG3919) (in Italian). Archivo del cinema Italiano. Retrieved June 10, 2016. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-sracult_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-sracult_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-sracult_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-sracult_3-3) Giusti, Marco (1999). *dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [*sic*]*. Cles: Sterling & Kupfer. p. 253. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [88-200-2919-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/88-200-2919-7). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [*The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHqQQf4pFHQC&dq=%22the+wild+pussycat%22&pg=PA149). University of California Press. 1997. p. 149. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-520-20970-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-20970-1). Retrieved 21 September 2022. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-allmovie_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-allmovie_5-1) Firsching, Robert. ["Emanuelle e Francoise: Le Sorelline"](http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v245062). [AllMovie](/source/AllMovie). Retrieved May 1, 2016. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Lupi_2004_52_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Lupi_2004_52_6-1) Lupi, Gordiano (2004). *Erotismo, orrore e pornografia secondo Joe D'Amato*. Mondo Ignoto. p. 52. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [88-89084-49-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/88-89084-49-9). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-stracult254_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-stracult254_7-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-stracult254_7-2) Giusti, Marco (1999). *dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [*sic*]*. Cles: Sterling & Kupfer. p. 254. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [88-200-2919-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/88-200-2919-7). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Gomarasca, Manlio; Pulice, Davide (2009). ["Joe D'Amato. Guida al cinema estremo e dell'orrore"](https://shop.nocturno.it/products/nocturno-78-joe-damato). *Nocturno*. 78 (January) (Dossier): 6. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["The Wild Pussycat / The Deserter"](https://www.mondo-digital.com/wildpussy.html). *www.mondo-digital.com*. Retrieved 17 May 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Curti, Roberto (2013). *Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980*. McFarland. p. 214. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0786469765](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0786469765). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Gomarasca, Manlio; Pulici, Davide (2009). *La piccola cineteca degli orrori*. Milano: RCS Libri. p. 201. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Emanuelle e Françoise, *le sorelline* (1975)"](http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG3919). Archivo del cinema Italiano. Retrieved 21 August 2017. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Eppenberger, Beni; Stapfer, Daniel (2006). *Mädchen, Machos und Moneten: die unglaubliche Geschichte des Schweizer Kinounternehmers Erwin C. Dietrich*. Scharfe Stiefel. p. 141. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Eppenberger, Beni; Stapfer, Daniel (2006). *Mädchen, Machos und Moneten: die unglaubliche Geschichte des Schweizer Kinounternehmers Erwin C. Dietrich*. Scharfe Stiefel. p. 180. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** Tentori, Antonio (1999). *Joe D'Amato: l'immagine del piacere*. Castelvecchi. p. 10. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [8882101487](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8882101487). ## External links - [*Emanuelle's Revenge*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074472/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Emanuelle's Revenge*](https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/francoise-and-emanuelle/) at [Variety Distribution](/source/Variety_Distribution) v t e Films directed by Joe D'Amato More Sexy Canterbury Tales (1972) The Devil's Wedding Night (1973) Novelle licenziose di vergini vogliose (1973) Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973) Heroes in Hell (1974) Giubbe rosse (1975) Emanuelle's Revenge (1975) Vow of Chastity (1976) Black Cobra Woman (1976) Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) Emanuelle in America (1977) Emanuelle Around the World (1977) Ladies' Doctor (1977) Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (1978) Follie di notte (1978) Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals (1978) Tough to Kill (1978) Images in a Convent (1979) Beyond the Darkness (1979) Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980) Sesso nero (1980) Antropophagus (1980) Porno Holocaust (1981) Absurd (1981) Caligula... 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