The Wages of Sin aka The Price of Sin

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Synopsis/Write Up
Overview

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE Volume 10

Weary of repackaging the creaky melodramas of the 1930s and ’40s, exploitation distributors in the 1960s began importing European films, which were more frank in their depictions of sexual matters. Any integrity the original films may have possessed was obliterated by the sensational titles and ad campaigns employed to market them to the American grindhouse. A perfect example is Der Arzt stellt fest... (The Doctor notes...), directed by Aleksander Ford (Mir Kumen On). A soap-style dramatization of life inside a women’s clinic, the film argues on behalf of birth control and safe, legal abortion. In the U.S., the film was released by Donn Davison as Wages of Sin and accompanied by a live lecture and additional childbirth shorts, both of which are included here. This Kino Classics edition includes another serious treatise on birth control (though one not sold on the exploitation circuit): The Misery and Fortune of Women, produced by Der Arzt stellt fest... co-producer Lazar Wechsler.

Format
Format	Blu-Ray
Film
Year	1966
Rating	15
Director	Aleksander Ford
Starring	Tadeusz Lomnicki René Deltgen Margot Trooger Dieter Borsche
Country	Switzerland, Germany
Label	Kino Classics
Region / TV Standard	Region 0
Language	English
Subtitles
Running time	77 mins
Aspect ratio	1.66:1
Case type	Standard
Extra features	Audio commentary by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Misery and Fortune of Women (1929, 58 min.) Donn Davison medical lecture/book pitch Life and Its Secrecies (11 min.) Triplets by Cesarean Section (8 min.) Trailer gallery