Immoral Women
# Immoral Women

Immoral Women (French: Les héroïnes du mal) is a 1979 French erotic drama film directed by Walerian Borowczyk, written by Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues and starring Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marina Pierro and Françoise Quéré.

## Synopsis

The film is divided into three self-contained episodes, set in different time periods and featuring female protagonists whose names all start with letter M as in the word mal (evil) and who commit crimes of passion.

* "Margherita", the ambitious mistress of the painter Raphael. Rome, 1520. This episode contains unsimulated sex between Margherita and Tomaso.
* "Marceline", the desirous adolescent daughter of a bourgeois family. Fin de siècle France.
* "Marie", the clever wife of a wealthy gallery owner. Modern day Paris.

## Cast

* Marina Pierro as Margherita Luti
* Gaëlle Legrand as Marceline Caïn
* Pascale Christophe as Marie
* François Guétary as Raphael Sanzio
* Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Bini
* Jean Martinelli as Pope
* Pierre Benedetti as Mad Painter
* Philippe Desboeuf as Doctor
* Noël Simsolo as Julio Romano
* Roger Lefrere as Michelangelo
* Gérard Falconetti as Tomaso
* Hassane Fall as Petrus
* France Rumilly as Madame Cain
* Yves Gourvil as Cain
* Lisbeth Arno as Floka
* Gérard Ismaël as Antoine
* Henri Piégay as Husband
* Mathieu Rivollier
* Robert Capia
* Daniel Marty
* Jacky Baudet
* Sylvain Ramsamy
* Jean Boullu
* Françoise Quéré
* Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
* Bernard Hiard

## Soundtrack

The score was composed by Philippe d'Aram and Olivier Dassault.

## Release

The film premiered on 7 March 1979 in a cinema release.

