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FROM THE FRED BOMAR COLLECTION: Hand signed 11×14 movie theatre lobby card from the film “Venus In Furs” Venus in Furs (Italian: Paroxismus – Può una morta rivivere per amore?, German: Schwarzer Engel) is a 1969 Italian supernatural erotic thriller film directed by Jesús Franco and starring James Darren.
The film (also known as Paroxismus and Black Angel) bears only a superficial resemblance to the 1870 Venus in Furs novel by Leopold von Sacher Masoch. The title and character names in Franco’s original script were changed to the novel’s for commercial reasons. Franco’s movie is a surreal supernatural erotic thriller about unattainable love and how far one is willing to go for the person they desire. It is not a study in masochism as portrayed in the novel. James Darren plays a jazz musician who becomes obsessed to the point of madness with the mysterious fur-clad Wanda (Maria Rohm), only to find her dead body washed up on the beach.
Hand signed in black ink by James Darren.