Quills
- IMDb link: 0180073
- IMDb rating: 7.2 (59,215 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Biography
- Director: Philip Kaufman, Kate Winslet
- Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine and others
- Release date: 15 Dec 2000
- Release year: 2000
- Runtime: 124 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
- Keywords: sex degenerate, sexual deviant, spousal rape, hands tied behind back, prisoner, burned with an iron, marquis de sade character, male full frontal nudity, sexual perversion, sadomasochism
Plot
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In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
The infamous writer, the Marquis de Sade of eighteenth century France, is imprisoned at Charenton Insane Asylum for unmentionable activities. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charenton and possibly the Marquis.
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