
Playing by Heart
1998


“Where anything could happen... and did!”
17 votes
In the pre-civil war American south, Emanuelle, a plantation owner's daughter, while outwardly a dainty southern belle, brutally abuses the slaves in her charge. When her fiance is bitten by a snake, he falls for Emanuelle's beautiful African-American maid who's kindness and skill saved his life. Insanely jealous, Emanuelle continues her sadistic behaviour towards her charges, and when her fiance announces he plans to wed the maid, Emanuelle "gives" her to her even more brutal hired men, and her fiance is powerless to stop them. Can Emanuelle learn an important lesson in love before it's too late for everyone?
Director
Mario PinzautiWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
This film is a perfect blend of **sexploitation** and **slavesploitation** genres, very balanced. Here we see how **Emmanuelle** (Malisa Longo), the daughter of a plantation owner in the pre-civil war American south, loves to torture her slaves as she pleases. But at the same time she also desires one of her slaves and often plays the victim as if it were his slave who desires him. Of course, that is enough to make us feel angry as people with human feelings. The film is a rip-off of the Italian film Black Emanuelle (1975) and the American film Mandigo (1975), one is mostly torture and the…
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