Sade is a 2000 French film directed by Benoît Jacquot, adapted by Jacques Fieschi and Bernard Minoret from the novel La terreur dans le boudoir by Serge Bramly.
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Plot
Paris in 1794: After prolonged detention, the Marquis de Sade (Daniel Auteuil), who claims during the hearing to be neither noble nor the author of the novel Justine, is incarcerated with other nobles in a prison which was formerly a monastery in Picpus.
Cast
Daniel Auteuil – Marquis de Sade
Marianne Denicourt – Marie-Constance Quesnet / Sensible
Jeanne Balibar – Madame Santero
Grégoire Colin – Fournier
Isild Le Besco – Emilie de Lancris
Jean-Pierre Cassel – Le vicomte de Lancris
Dominique Reymond – Madame de Lancris
Sylvie Testud – Renée de Sade
Philippe Duquesne – Coignard
François Levantal – Latour
Production
Filming took place at the Abbaye Saint-Martin de Sées in Sées (Orne).
In her book Dire vrai, Isild Le Besco accused Benoît Jacquot of raping her when she was only 16 years old, on the set of this film.