IN A GLASS CAGE

IN A GLASS CAGE, is a 1987 Spanish art house horror film written and directed by Agustí Villaronga and starring Günter Meisner, Marisa Paredes and David Sust. The plot follows an ex-Nazi sadistic child abuser who is now paralyzed and depending on an iron lung to live. A young man who comes to nurse him was one his former victims years before. The film was inspired by the history of Gilles de Rais. With its theme mixing Nazism, pedophilia, torture and homosexuality, the film was highly controversial. when this film came out in los angeles, i rushed the first day to century city to a screening. at the film progressed in severity depicting fetish, tourture and murder. most of the audience left in disgust. the disgruntled audience walked passed giving me dirty looks for not leaving as well. i was the only audience member who stayed to see the entire film.