Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

1836-01-27
59 (1895-03-09)
Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.

Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.

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Venus in Fur 2013 (7.2)

An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
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Venus in Furs 1994 (4.8)

Female mistress and male slave caught in a circle of tension.
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Seduction: The Cruel Woman 1986 (5.611)

Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate BDSM fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American "trainee," and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.