Eugenie: The Story of Her Journey into Perversion [Special Edition]

Jesùs Franco

Overview

In this X-rated film, whips and chains galore accompany the story of the young Eugenie, who is tempted by the father of her best friend. Eugenie is invited to her friend's summer place where she is drugged and seduced by her friend and her stepbrother.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/28/2019
UPC:	0827058116794
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	NR
Source:	Blue Underground
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:27:00
Sales rank:	23,291

Special Features

Perversion Stories - interviews with director Jess Franco, producer Harry Alan Towers, and stars Marie Liljedahl & Christopher Lee; Stephen Thrower on EUGENIE - interview with the author of "Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco"; Theatrical trailer; Poster ; Still gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Marie Liljedahl	Eugenie
Maria Rohm	Madame Saint-Ange
Jack Taylor	Mirvel
Nino Korda	Roches
Christopher Lee	Dolmance,Actor
Herbert Fux	Hardin
María Luisa Ponte	Madame Mistival
Herbert Fuchs	Hardin
Paul Müller	Father
Bruno Nicolai	Composer

Technical Credits

Jesus Franco

Peter Welbeck

Jesùs Franco

Jesus Franco	Director,Screenwriter
Peter Welbeck	Screenwriter
Harry Alan Towers	Producer
Jesùs Franco	Screenwriter,Director

Editorial Reviews

One of Jess Franco's earlier efforts at bringing the work of the Marquis de Sade to the screen (with many more to follow), Die Jungfrau und die Peitsche is rather subdued by Franco's standards, though it has enough nudity, decadence, and pretty people doing awful things to satisfy the vast majority of his fans. Die Jungfrau und die Peitsche (released in the United States as Eugenie: The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion) features plenty of lovely scenery and pleasing sequences of the idle rich enjoying themselves to balance out the lurid and enthusiastic torture sequences, though most of them are mildly creepy rather than bloodcurdling. Christopher Lee's all too brief supporting performance as master sadist Dolmance hits all the right notes (though it's not hard to believe his claims that the nudity was all filmed after his departure, so he wasn't aware of the full level of debauchery he was witnessing), and Maria Rohm and Jack Taylor are a fine pair of creepy, if attractive, libertines. Marie Liljedahl, however, takes top honors as the defiled innocent Eugenie, who walks an appropriate line between schoolgirl charm and ripe sexuality -- scoring impressively on both sides. Die Jungfrau und die Peitsche may be sleaze, but it's sleaze with style, delivering kinky softcore sex and amusingly pretentious philosophizing in amusingly equal measure.