The Women House of Brescia (1920)

Original title

Das Frauenhaus von Brescia

Directed by

Hubert Moest

Genre

drama film, silent film, historical film

Country

Germany

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent German film from 1920 takes place in medieval Europe. It depicts the imprisonment and exploitation of women captured during wartime in pillory houses. The portrayal of prostitution caused the film to be banned in Germany and blocked in Britain.

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What happens

The Women House of Brescia (German: Das Frauenhaus von Brescia) is a 1920 German-language silent film directed by Hubert Moest. The film's alternative name was The House of Pillory. The film was considered highly controversial for the depiction of prostitution. The film's story was set in medieval Europe during the fourteenth century. The film was based on Karl Hans Strobl's novel Das Frauenhaus von Brescia. The Pillory houses were the places where enemy women captured during wartime were imprisoned so that the people could exploit them as they wished. The depiction of prostitution was the basis for the picture's rejection by the British Board of Film Classification in 1921 and its being banned in Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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