Sade 2000

Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix

Release Date: 19 January 2001 (UK)

Country: UK, Germany, USA

Genre: Biography, Drama

Description: The infamous writer, the Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France, is imprisoned at Charenton Insane Asylum for unmentionable activities. He manages to befriend the young AbbГ© de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. The emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charenton and possibly the Marquis himself.