The niche market DVD label Mondo Macabro has released a little-known 1976 film titled In Hell, known variously as La tortura and Gloria Mundi. The movie is the creation of the late Greek director Nikos Papatakis, who obviously felt he had a significant left-wing political statement to make in this bizarre and unpleasant blending of radicalism and sexual humiliation. The film's one saving grace is an astonishingly brave performance by lead actress Olga Karlatos, who we are introduced to in a provocative, if cringe-inducing sequence in which we observe her sitting in a bathtub and attaching electrical wires to her nipples and genitals then torturing herself by turning on the current. Why is she doing this? It seems that her character, Galai, is an attractive young Algerian immigrant living in Paris. She has fallen under the spell of a mysterious and unseen political anarchist named Hamdias, who wants to wreak havoc against French colonialism in Algeria. This is to be achieved through terrorist acts that he is grooming Galai to carry out via instructions on the phone and cassette tapes. He also fancies himself an important filmmaker and is trying to raise funds for a political thriller starring Galai in the leading role. The film runs into the usual dilemma that real life independent producers must endure: the funding keeps running out but Galai becomes obsessed with ensuring that the movie is completed. Hamidias envisions incorporating perverse sexual abuse into the story line and he finds a willing leading lady in Galai, who enthusiastically submits herself to self-imposed "training sessions" in which she performs torture on her own body, all the better to please her producer/director/lover by giving the most genuine performance possible. The graphic opening sequence of this abuse is difficult to watch but the film quickly delves into a virtually incomprehensible look at the psychological tortures Galai is facing. Seems that Hamdias enjoys playing head games with her psyche and issuing increasingly dangerous demands including carrying out dry runs for terrorist bombings. She constantly vents to herself about her disdain for him, but it becomes clear that not only is she completely submissive to his whims, he is also holding their child as a virtual hostage to ensure she carries out his demands. That's about all I could ascertain from the confusing story line which at times is completely incomprehensible. There are films within films, sarcastic scenes that denounce the French elite and occasional sequences in which Galai is subjected to sexual abuse at the hands of military captor. There is abundant full female nudity but none of it is presented in an erotic manner and in one particularly awful scene one of Galai's would-be lovers vomits on her bare chest. 　　Papatakis might have thought he was making a poignant political statement but he comes across as a bargain basement imitation of Costas-Gavras. In fact, one suspects that all he really wanted to do was make a dirty movie but provided himself with a pseudo intellectual cover. (In one prolonged film-within-a-film sequence, a despicable French military officer engages a prostitute to engage in bizarre practices that include using a rather difficult and innovative method of opening champagne bottles.) 　　By Lee Pfeiffer -cinemaretro.com- 　　译文(3): 利基市场DVD厂牌Mondo Macabro在1976年发行了一部鲜为人知的电影，名为《地狱》，被称为《折磨人》和《格洛丽亚·蒙迪【资源囤-ZiYuanTun.Com】。这部电影是已故希腊导演尼科斯·帕帕塔基斯的作品，他显然觉得自己在激进主义和性羞辱的奇怪而令人不快的混合中有一个重要的左翼政治声明要发表。这部电影的一大亮点是女主角奥尔加·卡拉托斯惊人的勇敢表演，我们在一个挑衅的、甚至令人尴尬的镜头中认识了她，在这个镜头中，我们看到她坐在浴缸里，把电线连接到乳头和生殖器上，然后通电折磨自己。她为什么这么做？她的角色加莱似乎是一个住在巴黎的有魅力的年轻阿尔及利亚移民。她被一个神秘的、看不见的政治无政府主义者哈姆迪亚斯迷住了，他想在阿尔及利亚大肆破坏法国殖民主义。这是通过恐怖行为来实现的，他通过电话和录音带上的指示引导加莱实施恐怖行为。他还认为自己是一位重要的电影制作人，并试图为一部由加莱主演的政治惊悚片筹集资金。这部电影陷入了现实生活中独立制片人必须忍受的常见困境：资金不断耗尽，但加莱却痴迷于确保电影完成。哈米迪亚斯设想将反常的性虐待融入故事情节，他在《加莱》中找到了一位心甘情愿的女主角，她热情地接受自我强加的“性虐待”；培训课程”；在这部电影中，她对自己的身体进行折磨，通过尽可能真实的表演来取悦她的制片人/导演/爱人。这种虐待的开场白很难观看，但这部电影很快就深入探讨了加莱所面临的几乎无法理解的心理折磨。哈姆迪亚斯似乎喜欢用自己的心理进行头部游戏，并提出越来越危险的要求，包括为恐怖爆炸进行演习。她不断向自己发泄对他的蔑视，但很明显，她不仅完全服从他的奇思妙想，他还把他们的孩子当作虚拟人质，以确保她执行他的要求。这就是我从令人困惑的故事情节中所能确定的全部内容，有时这是完全无法理解的。电影中有谴责法国精英的讽刺镜头，也有加莱在军事绑架者手中遭受性虐待的偶尔镜头。有很多女性全裸，但没有一个是以色情的方式呈现的，在一个特别可怕的场景中，加莱的一个准情人在她裸露的胸部呕吐。