Barbed Wire Dolls

Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

Frauengefängnis

Welcome to prison, Ladies!

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

Date of release
1976-04-22
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (69)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Horror
Director
Jesús Franco

Casting

Interesting facts

Frauengefängnis is a 1975 women-in-prison film directed and co-written by Jesús Franco, produced by Erwin C. Dietrich, and starring Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, and Paul Müller.

Production

The prison exteriors were filmed at the Fortaleza de San Fernando in Omoa, Honduras and Fort Carré in Antibes, France. The escape sequence was filmed in the Lancetilla Botanical Garden in Honduras. The rest of the film was shot at Erwin C. Dietrich’s studios in Zurich.

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