Cruel Passion
# Cruel Passion

Cruel Passion (also known as Justine) is a 1977 film starring Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle, and Katherine Kath. It was directed by Chris Boger and based on the 1791 novel Justine by the Marquis de Sade.

## Plot

Justine is a young virgin thrown out of a French orphanage and into the depraved world of prostitution. She slips into a life of debauchery, torture, whipping, slavery and salaciousness while her brazen, flirtatious and liberated sister Juliette ironically receives nothing but happiness and reward for her wanton behavior.

## Cast

* Koo Stark as Justine Jerome
* Martin Potter as Lord Carlisle
* Lydia Lisle as Juliette Jerome
* Katherine Kath as Madame Laronde
* Hope Jackman as Mrs Bonny
* Barry McGinn as George
* Louis Ife as Pastor John
* Maggie Petersen as Mother Superior
* David Masterman as Archer
* Ian McKay as Brough
* Ann Michelle as Pauline

## Release

### Home media

The DVD is now available uncut in the United Kingdom as "Cruel Passion" and in the United States as "Marquis de Sade's Justine"

