MOVIE · 1969

De Sade

CrimeDramaThriller120 min

Imprisoned for lewd behavior, the Marquis de Sade looks back on the sadomasochistic experiments and scandals that made him infamous in 18th-century France. Keir Dullea is the French nobleman at the center of this fictionalized biography, tracing his appetites, obsessions, and the punishments that follow. Senta Berger and Lilli Palmer appear among the women and social forces moving through his recollections, as the film shifts between aristocratic privilege and confinement. Directed by Cy Endfield and Roger Corman, De Sade presents its subject through memory, turning a notorious historical figure into the focus of a dark, unstable personal account.