Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne? (1977)

Director:

Joe D'Amato

Writers:

Gianfranco Clerici (writer)
Joe D'Amato (writer)
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Release Date:

October 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Emanuelle's back to take you places you've never been before!

Plot:

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring...

Plot Keywords:

Lesbian Sex | Lesbianism | Female Nudity | Female Frontal Nudity | Hong Kong

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Emanuelle
Ivan Rassimov	...	Dr. Malcolm Robertson
Karin Schubert	...	Cora Norman
Don Powell	...	Jeff Davis
George Eastman	...	Guru Shanti
Brigitte Petronio	...	Mary
Maria Luigia Stefania Pecce
Marino Masé	...	Cassei
Gianni Macchia	...	Emir
Paola Maiolini
Claudio Aliotti
Eduardo Puoti
Lanfranco Spinola
Antonio Gismondo
Rino Guarrera
Maria Bonolis		(as Marisa Bonolis)
Maria Piera Regoli
Paola D'Egidio
Juliet Graham	...	Miss Ohio (as Elisabetta Terribile)
Efrem Appel
Franca Guida
Maria Renata Franco
Daniele Forli
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Joe D'Amato	...	Halup Kilev (uncredited)
Craig Hill	...	Disfigured-face man (uncredited)
Rick 'Ercolino' Martino	...	Participant in Indian Orgy Scene (uncredited)
Paul Powell	...	(uncredited)
Paul Thomas	...	Ivory Vanlines driver (uncredited)

Directed by
Joe D'Amato

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Gianfranco Clerici		writer
Joe D'Amato		writer
Maria Pia Fusco		screenplay
Maria Pia Fusco		story

Produced by
Fabrizio De Angelis	....	producer

Original Music by
Nico Fidenco

Cinematography by
Joe D'Amato		(as Aristide Massaccesi)

Film Editing by
Vincenzo Tomassi

Production Design by
Marco Dentici

Costume Design by
Ivana Scandariato

Makeup Department
Ennio Cascioli	....	hair stylist
Cesare Paciotti	....	makeup artist
Pietro Tenoglio	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Fabrizio De Angelis	....	production manager
Paolo Gargano	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Donatella Donati	....	assistant director

Art Department
Mauro Passi	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Nick Alexander	....	dubbing supervisor
Guglielmo Smeraldi	....	boom operator
Gianni Zampagni	....	sound recordist

Camera and Electrical Department
Antonio Benetti	....	still photographer
Enrico Biribicchi	....	camera operator
Enzo Frattari	....	assistant camera
Fernando Massaccesi	....	gaffer
Luciano Micheli	....	key grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Stella Battista	....	seamstress

Editorial Department
Vanio Amici	....	first assistant editor
Carlo Della Corte	....	third assistant editor
Pietro Tomassi	....	second assistant editor

Music Department
Giacomo Dell'Orso	....	musical director

Other crew
Dario Armellini	....	production coordinator
Umberto Bellucci	....	set technician
Patrizia Zulini	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Embassy Productions S.p.A.

Distributors

• Fida Cinematografica (1977) (Italy) (theatrical)
• New Realm Pictures Ltd. (1978) (UK) (theatrical)
• Jerry Gross Organization, The (1980) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Ambassador Film Distributors (1981) (Canada) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• R.I.D. (1982) (France) (theatrical)
• Maxima Entertainment (video)
• Obshchestvennoye Rossijskoye Televideniye (ORT) Video (Russia) (VHS)
• Oscar Video (19??) (Greece) (VHS)
• RUSCICO (2001) (Russia) (DVD)
• Severin Films (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Shocking Videos (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• Universum Film (UFA) (19??) (West Germany) (video)
• Variety Video (19??) (Belgium) (video)
• Video Programme Distributors (VPD) (19??) (UK) (VHS)
• Wizard Video (198?) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Atelier Fotografico  still photo laboratory
• Mario Russo Sartoria  costumes
• Nino Lembo  accessories
• Pompei Vidéo  footwear
• Rocchetti e Carboni  wigs
• Sanchini  carpets and drapes
• Studio Mafera  titles
• Venus Studios  dubbing: English

Also Known As:

Confessions of Emanuelle (UK)
Emanuelle Around the World (International: English title)
Emanuelle Versus Violence to Women
The Degradation of Emanuelle (video title)

Runtime:

97 min | 102 min (hardcore version) | UK:80 min (heavily cut)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:-16 | UK:X (original rating: 1978) (heavily cut) | Australia:R (2008) | UK:18 (re-rating: 1987) (heavily cut) | Finland:K-18 | USA:X (self applied)

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Embassy Productions S.p.A.

Trivia:

When this film was originally submitted to the BBFC in the UK in 1978, it was a film version that was cut to run at 87 minutes. When re-submitted for video in 1987, however, the uncut soft-core version was submitted with a PAL running time of 94 minutes (which is 97 minutes for film and NTSC running times) and was cut by 15 minutes, 45 seconds PAL running time (16 minutes, 24 seconds film/NTSC running time), bringing the final running time to 77 minutes, 27 seconds PAL (80 minutes, 41 seconds film/NTSC). It has yet to be re-released on DVD in the UK.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Obvious body double for the hardcore scene featuring Emanuelle at the Guru's orgy.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Violenza in un carcere femminile (1982)

Soundtrack:

Kamasutra in Love

Why violence against women?--it sells a lot of tickets apparently

This movie recently appeared in the "Black Emanuelle's Box Set" with two other movies, one of which was significantly better ("Sister Emanuelle") and the other slightly worse ("Emanuelle in Bangkok"). Emanuelle (Laura Gemser)is a once again a "world-famous photojournalist" who is much more intrepid than intelligent (when we first see her she is saving air fare to San Francisco by having sex with a long-haul furniture trucker--I don't know why she didn't just have sex with a pilot). She is sent to India by her publisher where she discredits a local sex guru--by having sex with him, of course. Encouraged by an old friend (Karin Schubert) and a young girl (Briget Petronnio) who she meets (and has lesbian sex with) in India, she decides to investigate a white slavery ring, naturally by getting HERSELF kidnapped, along with a couple naive white girls, in Rome with only a shy, virginal guy she briefly flirted with as back-up.

Obviously, this film is not very realistic. International sex slave rings do not generally trade in pretty middle-class white girls snatched right off the street while touring Rome. This movie would be pretty offensive if it WAS realistic though since it is obviously far more interested in exploiting this subject than exposing it. It is not quite as transgressive or disturbing as other films in the series like "Emanuelle in America", but there are way too many scenes of women being slapped around and/or raped. Still even these scenes look more like rough consensual sex than anything since the women never seem to physically or mentally traumatized by it, but remain as pretty and chirpy as ever afterward.

The female leads are all very attractive. Petronnio would later suffer far worse abuse in Ruggiero Deodata' "House at the Edge of the Park" while Schubert probably suffered worse in real-life after becoming a hardcore actress. Laura Gemser, as usual, manages to float effortlessly above whatever sleaze she is cast in. At times this movie seems almost feminist in a strange way, much more so than the similar American "Ginger" series with Cheri Caffaro, largely because of the innate classiness of Gemser that makes her "degradation"-proof even to the likes of Joe D'Amato. As for the movie itself, it's not good and I don't want to morally defend it, but it isn't really more than a, for lack of a better word, "naked" version of the old Hollywood ploy of exploiting lurid subject matter while pretending to condemn it.