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Sex & Nudity

  • Upper nudity throughout the film. Some full female nudity but only breasts are displayed.
  • There are at most only 10 scenes in the entire film that are in no way related to nudity or sexuality.
  • Many of the characters - some of them relatives - are involved in sexual relationships. These are often abusive, blackmailing or adulterous.
  • One of the male characters is repeatedly referred to as a pederast.
  • Several scenes of on-screen sex and many scenes that either precede or follow off-scren sex.
  • Most of the female characters are shown either fully or partially nude in various scenes, or dressed in skimpy clothing such as bikinis, panties or semi-transparent nightgowns.
  • A teenage boy character is shown in several scenes either shirtless, wearing a wide open shirt or a tiny speedo swimsuit. In one scene, he partially removes his pants and shows his bare bottom. In another scene, he is implied to be naked in the bathtub.
  • A woman and her lover have sex next to her husband sleeping in bed. The man's rear nudity is shown. Later, compromising photographs are shown, depicting the situation.
  • A scene on the beach where both men and women wear very skimpy swimsuits. One of the women later strips naked and swims in the sea.
  • The kidnappers' letter says that the teenage boy has been kidnapped and unless a ransom is paid, they will castrate him. His uncle comments, "Good. He will finally stop jerking off."
  • A lesbian maid sexually harasses and in one case blackmails two different women from her employer's family.
  • A man released from prison is picked up in a car by a mysterious woman who immediately seduces him by showing off her exposed legs and garter belt. He gets into her car and tries to seduce her. The woman refuses and slaps him. No nudity.
  • Man is payed by a countess to seduce her married sister-in-law.
  • A man and his wife have sex on the street. He's been in prison for a year and can't take it anymore. No nudity, they are both clothed and apart from a few thrusting moves most of the sex happens off-screen.
  • Teenage boy secretly watches his half-sister sunbathing topless. When he thinks his sister is asleep, he ventures closer and photographs her from different angles. The sister, however, only pretends to be asleep and deliberately seduces him. The scene climaxes with the boy playfully squirting water at his sister from a water hose, which he holds in his lap as if it were his erect penis.
  • Butler comes into his mistress's bedroom, where she is sleeping, and starts kissing and licking her bare back. It turns out that they know each other from before, when she was a criminal like him. She wants him to stop harassing her, but he won't stop and blackmails her by revealing her past. Topless female nudity. Rear female nudity, he's shirtless. When her husband arrives, they get dressed.
  • Two women and one teenage boy are showing their identical butt mole in front of other people, proving that they are relatives. Male rear nudity, female rear nudity.
  • Teenage boy is secretly observing with binoculars his young aunt, topless in window. She's deliberately showing off, then giving him the lighter signal. He then comes to her balcony, she takes his hand and runs it over her body. She then kisses his bare chest (he is wearing an open shirt), unzips his pants and kisses him. In a moment she is naked. It's not clear whether actuall sex has occurred after or not.
  • A teenage boy is lying in the bathtub with his eyes closed, listening to music from a gramophone and erotic photographs of naked women on the bathroom walls. It is implied that the boy is either masturbating in the bathtub or about to do so.
  • While a teenage boy is naked in the bathtub, partially covered by bubbles, his half-sister walks in. When she addresses him, he sits down in the tub, startled, and crosses his legs so his penis can't be seen. She starts to look at his photographs with her leg resting on the bathtub so the boy can see her transparent panties. She asks him if he is a photographer out of a hobby or to satisfy his sexual needs.
  • Teenage photography enthusiast says he only takes nude photos for artistic reasons, but his half-sister doesn't believe him. She asks him if it turns him on sexually and if he is aroused right now. He denies it, startled.
  • A teenage boy's half-sister reaches her hand into bubbles while he's taking bath and it's implied that he has an erection. He then pulls her into the bathtub with him. She slaps him and leaves saying "you're just a little boy". He asks if she's going to leave him in there like that. She replies that "a man has to be independent in life", implying that he should masturbate.

Violence & Gore

  • The kidnappers' letter says that the teenage boy has been kidnapped and unless a ransom is paid, they will castrate him. His uncle comments, "Good. He will finally stop jerking off."
  • A lesbian maid sexually harasses and in one case blackmails two different women from her employer's family.
  • In several different scenes, the female characters slap one of the male characters.
  • Lots of scenes of various forms of sexualized violence, humiliation and blackmail.

Profanity

  • The protagonist pretends to be gay in front of his employer. Stereotypical mannerisms and terms like "sissy" and "faggot" are used.
  • Some derogatory remarks about French people.
  • The Count says about his nephew that he's a "wanker" and should "stop jerking off", about his wife that she's "ugly unworthy bitch" etc. This character is particularly vulgar and hateful throughout the film.
  • Fairly vulgar language throughout the film, containing derogatory terms for sex and masturbation, homophobic slurs and frequent slut shaming.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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