The beautiful Laura Antonelli stars as in this masterpiece of eroticism based on the famous 1869 novel by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher Masoch, who described the concept of masochism for the first time in literature. Venus in Furs gained for its author both notoriety and a degree of immortality when the word "masochism"--derived from his name--entered the psychiatric lexicon.
The film describes the sexual obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman with the desire "to be the slave of a woman." Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless and beautiful Wanda von Dunajew.
Not simply a lurid tale of sexual perversion, nor a Victorian fantasy of antique decadence, Venus in Furs is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and his world in the realm of desire. Influential on Freud, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Schnitzler, Venus in Furs is a classic statement on sexual submission and control.
A beautiful film best know for its gorgeous photography by Sergio d’Offizi and  fine score by Gianfranco Reverberi. Written by Inge Hilger, Fabio Massimo. Directed by Massimo Dallamano. Also starring Regis Vallee, Ewing Loren, Renate Kasche, Werner Pochath, Mady Rahl, Wolf Ackva, Peter Heeg.