A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Geoffrey Rush , Kate Winslet , Joaquin Phoenix , Michael Caine , Billie Whitelaw , Patrick Malahide , Amelia Warner , Jane Menelaus , Stephen Moyer , Tony Pritchard , Michael Jenn , Danny Babington , George Antoni , Stephen Marcus , Elizabeth Berrington , Edward Tudor-Pole , Harry Jones , Bridget McConnell , Pauline McLynn , Rebecca Palmer
Philip Kaufman , Deborah Saban , Olivia Lloyd , Sally Jones , Toby Hefferman , Matthew Penry-Davey , Mari Roberts , Vic Armstrong , Richard Styles
