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In the world of fetishes there’s a niche for every type of proclivity. Arwed caters to a special type of
customer: he runs a private prison where he is happy to find all sorts of ways to bully and victimise
his paying guests on the other side of the bars. As prison director he is master of ceremonies; during
the course of one week, he and his partner Dennis help fulfil their prisoners’ wildest fantasies. The
inmates treat the days and nights they spend in handcuffs and leg irons as a real holiday – here at
last is a place they can finally switch off and relax. The role play looks a bit like improvised theatre,
especially when director Arwed and his assistant Dennis plan the next day’s performance in the bare
cells and corridors of their institution. But even when using the whip these ‘torturers’ never forget to
be humane and, in spite of their tough prison warder guise, they are fully aware, in way that is almost
caring, of their responsibility for those in ‘detention’. Director Jan Soldat poses his questions offscreen,
in the same interview style that he adopted in his short films.
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- Haftanlage 4614