The Pleasure
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Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of his life, are a number of erotic tape recordings. She led a double life as respectable wife and mother of two, and as a whore at the local brothel. Now, after her death, her children Ursula and Edmund pass under the tutelage of Gerard. Having not seen them for many years, he is utterly bewildered by Ursula's uncanny likeness to her mother. While Gerard's mistress Fiorella takes care of Edmund's sexual needs, Ursula follows the last instructions of her mother. In the process, she uses the legacy of her mother's recordings to get into the mindset of her relationship with Gerard. Is Gerard ready to find his lost love Leonora again... in the likeness of her very daughter?
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Cast
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Gabriele Tinti
Gerard Villeneuve
Known for
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Andrea Guzon
Leonora / Ursula
Also in
Sadomania
Frigid Fantasies
Lilli Carati
Fiorella
Known for
To Be Twenty
Marco Mattioli
Edmund
Known for
The Goodbye Kiss
Laura Gemser
Haunani
Known for
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
Dagmar Lassander
Rosa
Known for
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
The House by the Cemetery
Maurice Poli
Boris, lo stalliere (non accreditato)
Known for
Rabid Dogs
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Joe D'Amato Director · Claudio Fragasso Writer Nicolas Edme Rétif de La Bretonne Author
First release July 31, 1985 · Produced in Italy · Original title Il Piacere
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Filmirage
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Italy
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Original title
Il Piacere
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · July 31, 1985
Theatrical · Visa #80652
No release date listed for United States.
United Kingdom
January 1, 1986 · Theatrical · May have been physical release, no data
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