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
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
Cast
Lina Romay
Maria da Guerra
Paul Müller
Carlos Costa
Monica Swinn
The Wardress
Roger Darton
Milton Warren
Ronald Weiss
The Warden
Martine Stedil
Bertha Contrini
Eric Falk
Nestor
Peggy Markoff
Pompadour
Raymond Hardy
José
Beni Cardoso
Rosaria Cortina
Jesús Franco
Maria's Father (uncredited)
Nathalie Mann
Denis Torre
Frieda Altstadt
(uncredited)
Madeleine Ammann
(uncredited)
Nathalie Chape
(uncredited)
Lilliane Stollberger
(uncredited)
// crew
Crew
Jesús Franco
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Walter Baumgartner
Original Music Composer
Erwin C. Dietrich
Producer
Peter Baumgartner
Editor
Marie-Luise Buschke
Editor
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