A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

"Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his."

Credits

Philip KaufmanDirector

Geoffrey RushMarquis de Sade

Kate WinsletMadeleine LeClerc

Joaquin PhoenixAbbe du Coulmier

Michael CaineDr. Royer-Collard