Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate S & M fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American trainee, and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.
Direction: Monika Treut, Elfi Mikesch
Script: Monika Treut, Elfi Mikesch
Cast: Mechithild Grossmann, Udo Kier, Sheila McLaughlin
Original Title: Verführung: Die grausame Frau
Original Language: German
Subtitles: No subtitles
Film Production Country: Germany