The Pleasure

Story

Synopsis

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?

Writers

Nicolas Edme Rétif de La Bretonne, Claudio Fragasso

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

31 July 1985

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Gabriele Tinti

  Gerard Villeneuve

• 

  Andrea Guzon

  Leonora / Ursula

• Marco Mattioli

  Edmund

• 

  Laura Gemser

  Haunani

• 

  Dagmar Lassander

  Rosa

• 

  Maurice Poli

  Boris, lo stalliere (non accreditato)