Sade is a 2000 French film directed by Benoît Jacquot, adapted by Jacques Fieschi and Bernard Minoret from the novel La terreur dans le boudoir by Serge Bramly.
Sade | |
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Directed by | Benoît Jacquot |
Written by | Serge Bramly (novel) Jacques Fieschi |
Produced by | Patrick Godeau |
Starring | Daniel Auteuil Marianne Denicourt Jeanne Balibar Grégoire Colin Isild Le Besco Jean-Pierre Cassel |
Cinematography | Benoît Delhomme |
Edited by | Luc Barnier |
Distributed by | Océan Films |
Release date | 23 August 2000 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $8.5 million |
Box office | $3.4 million[1] |
Paris in 1794: After prolonged detention, the Marquis de Sade (Daniel Auteuil), who claims during the hearing to be neither noble nor the author of the novel Justine, is incarcerated with other nobles in a prison which was formerly a monastery in Picpus.