Barbed Wire Dolls
Barbed Wire Dolls

Movie·1976·1h 21m

Barbed Wire Dolls

Welcome to prison, Ladies!

Country

Switzerland

Language

French

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The Story

Original title: Frauengefängnis

Maria, 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.

Producer

Erwin C. Dietrich

Cinematography

Jesús Franco

Music

Walter Baumgartner

Editor

Peter Baumgartner

Themes

prisonislandrapesadismwomen's prisondominatrixprison wardenprison escapefemale protagonistwrongful imprisonmenttorturehumiliation

Production House

Elite Film

Audience Score

46%

65 votes

Skip19%
Timepass46%
Go for it27%
Perfection8%

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Cast

Lina Romay

Lina Romay

Maria da Guerra

Paul Müller

Paul Müller

Carlos Costa

Monica Swinn

Monica Swinn

The Wardress

Roger Darton

Milton Warren

Ronald Weiss

Ronald Weiss

The Warden

Martine Stedil

Martine Stedil

Bertha Contrini

Eric Falk

Eric Falk

Nestor

Peggy Markoff

Peggy Markoff

Pompadour

Raymond Hardy

Raymond Hardy

José

Beni Cardoso

Beni Cardoso

Rosaria Cortina

Jesús Franco

Jesús Franco

Maria's Father (uncredited)

Nathalie Mann

Nathalie Mann

Denis Torre

Frieda Altstadt

(uncredited)

Madeleine Ammann

(uncredited)

Nathalie Chape

(uncredited)

Lilliane Stollberger

(uncredited)

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Crew

Jesús Franco

Jesús Franco

Director, Writer, Director of Photography

Walter Baumgartner

Walter Baumgartner

Original Music Composer

Erwin C. Dietrich

Erwin C. Dietrich

Producer

Peter Baumgartner

Editor

Marie-Luise Buschke

Editor

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