Cast: Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet, Billie Whitelaw, Geoffrey Rush, George Yiasoumi, Kate Winslet, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Ward, Tessa Vale
Director: Philip Kaufman
Rating: R
Studio: 20th Century Fox Entertainment
Release date: November 22nd, 2000
Synopsis:
Story of the Marquis de Sade's long imprisonment at the Chartenton Asylum for the Insane. Escaping execution during the French Revolution, Sade is given preferential treatment at Chartenton and allowed to write. But after his book "Justine" is smuggled out of the asylum and published in Paris, torturer Royer-Collard is sent to discipline the unruly writer.