Prisoner of Passion

Prisoner of Passion (Italian: La Orca) is an Italian film directed by Eriprando Visconti. The film was followed with the sequel Oedipus Orca.^[2]

Prisoner of Passion
Directed by	Eriprando Visconti
Screenplay by	Lisa Mopurgo Eriprando Visconti[1]
Story by	Eriprando Visconti
Produced by	Marcello D'Amico[1]
Starring	Michele Placido Rena Niehaus Flavio Bucci
Cinematography	Blasco Giurato[1]
Edited by	Franco Arcalli[1]
Music by	Federico Monti Arduini[1]
Production company	Serena Film '75[1]
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	1976 (1976)
Running time	101 minutes[1]
Country	Italy[1]

Cast

• Michele Placido: Michele
• Rena Niehaus: Alice
• Carmen Scarpitta: Irene, Alice's mother
• Lisa Morpurgo: Elisa
• Flavio Bucci: Gino
• Bruno Corazzari: Paolo

Production

In reference to the scene in which Rena Niehaus has her vagina fingered explicitly by Michele Placido, the actress said she was not clear what the scene would be like because she couldn't speak Italian.^[3]

Reception

From a contemporary review, David Badder wrote in the Monthly Film Bulletin that the film was "slowly paced and directed with no commitment to character or theme, it is difficult to detect any compelling motive behind Prisoner of Passion."^[1] Badder continued that "the sex scenes remain wholly unerotic because their premise, that Alice uses her worldliness to overcome and then exploit the innocent peasant, is insufficiently defined."^[1]