Barbed Wire Dolls
Sign in to saveFrauengefängnis (lit. Women's prison; released in the US as Barbed Wire Dolls and in the UK as Caged Women) is a 1975 Swiss-West German horror film directed by Jesús Franco. It is part of the women in prison cycle of violent sexploitation films that flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s. A women's prison tale, it stars Lina Romay as Maria, who has been jailed after killing her father, played by director Jesús Franco himself.
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4.6Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.
Released: 1976-04-2281 minDir: Jesús FrancoCrime, Drama, Horror
Cast
- Lina Romay as Maria da Guerra
- Paul Müller as Carlos Costa
- Monica Swinn as The Wardress
- Roger Darton as Milton Warren
- Ronald Weiss as The Warden
- Martine Stedil as Bertha Contrini
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Key dates
- Published
- 5 August 1981
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- Switzerland
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Jesús Franco
- Screenwriter
- Jesús Franco
- Composer
- Walter Baumgartner
- Producer
- Erwin C. Dietrich
- Cinematographer
- Jesús Franco
- Duration
- +90
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Frauengefängnis (lit. Women's prison; released in the US as Barbed Wire Dolls and in the UK as Caged Women) is a 1975 Swiss-West German horror film directed by Jesús Franco. It is part of the women in prison cycle of violent sexploitation films that flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s. A women's prison tale, it stars Lina Romay as Maria, who has been jailed after killing her father, played by director Jesús Franco himself.
When originally submitted for release in 1976, the British Board of Film Classification rejected it. It was only passed the following year after extensive cuts as was the case in Australia.
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1970s exploitation films1975 films1975 French-language films1975 German films1975 horror films1976 filmsFilms directed by Jesús FrancoFilms originally rejected by the British Board of Film ClassificationFilms scored by Walter BaumgartnerFrench-language horror filmsFrench-language Swiss filmsGerman horror films