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Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976)

Country of Origin: Switzerland/West Germany
Year of Production: 1976
Running Times: 76 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Elite Film/Zürich & Munich
Producer: Erwin C. Dietrich

SCRIPT
Script: David Khunne (real name: Jesus Franco)

DIRECTION
Director: Jess Franco (real name: Jesus Franco)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: David Khunne (real name: Jesus Franco)

MUSIC
Music: Walter Baumgartner

CAST
Lina Romay (Doriana Gray / Doriana's twin sister)
Monica Swinn (the American journalist)
Raymond Hardy (real name: Ramon Ardid) (Ziros)
Martine Stedil (Irina, Ziros' girlfriend)
Peggy Markoff (girl in hotel room)
Ronald Weiss
Andrea Rigano
Peter Lusehand
Alex Anglowitz

PLOT SUMMARY

An American journalist visits the wealthy but lonely Doriana Gray in her castle hoping to uncover a mysterious secret from her past. It seems that Doriana is a sex vampire, telepathically linked to the Siamese twin she was seperated from at birth who experiences the orgasms that Doriana can never have.

Dirty Dracula - export title
Ejaculations - export title
Die Marquise de Sade - West German title
Die Marquise des Sade - West German title
Le portrait de Doriana Gray

MAGAZINES

Absurd no.8 (UK)
credits, review

BOOKS

Obsession - The Films of Jesus Franco pp.120, 123
illustrated credits, review (by Peter Blumenstock)

Spaghetti Nightmares p.165
credits, review

OTHER SOURCES

Sex, Shocks and Sadism p.26
credits, review

castles; doctors; journalists; porn; psychiatric hospitals; sex; siamese twins; telepathy; twins; vampires

Last Updated: 20 October, 2008