The Satin Spider
5.3
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
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Cast
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Catherine Jourdan
Solange - une prof de danse nerveusement instable
Known for
Le Samouraï
Eden and After
Alexandra Scicluna
Lucienne - une élève de14 ans qui disparaît
Also in
Une nouvelle douceur
Woyzeck
Daniel Mesguich
Le prêtre
Known for
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Love on the Run
Jacques Dorfmann
Also in
Na !
Slim Bouchoucha
Roland Topor
Le médecin
Known for
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Sweet Movie
Catherine Breillat
Known for
Last Tango in Paris
The Housekeeper
Louis Duchesne
Ingrid Caven
La directrice
Known for
Suspiria
World on a Wire
Pierre Palau
Known for
Carnival of Sinners
Le Corbeau
Michel Albertini
Inspecteur Levron
Known for
I... for Icarus
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Jean-Paul Sarré
Jacques Baratier Director · Catherine Breillat Screenplay Gérard Bourdieu Composer
First release March 26, 1986 · Produced in France · Original title L'araignée de satin
Production
Baraka Productions
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
L'araignée de satin
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · March 26, 1986
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Belgium
March 12, 1987 · Gent
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