Name: The Laughing Woman
Director: Piero Schivazappa
Genre: Thriller
Released: 1969-01-01
Duration: 108 min

Dominance. Submission.

The Laughing Woman (1969) centers on a wealthy advertising executive obsessed with manipulating women who abducts a journalist known for her outspoken feminist views and imprisons her inside his modernist estate. As psychological games, erotic power struggles, and shifting identities begin destabilizing the relationship between captor and captive, the carefully controlled experiment gradually reverses direction in unexpected ways. This Italian-French psychological thriller examines domination and sexual manipulation within a stylized world of modern alienation, as personal boundaries erode, with gender conflict, voyeurism, and psychological control.

Selected disc options for The Laughing Woman

Extras	Mondo Macabro BD-ALL/US 2021	Shameless BD-B/UK 2024	First Run DVD-1/US/OOP 2000	Shameless DVD-0/UK 2008
Audio Commentary by Kat Ellinger	has extra
Production Design in “The Laughing Woman” - Video Essay by Rachael Nisbet (24:57)	has extra
The Female Gaze - Interview with Actress Dagmar Lassander (28:21)		has extra
Marquis de Sade vs Praying Mantis - Interview with Director/Co-Writer Piero Schivazappa (32:51)	has extra	has extra
Animated Foto-Novel - By Jacques Spohr (2:56)	has extra
Italian Theatrical Trailer (3:18)	has extra
US Theatrical Trailer (1:39)	has extra		has extra
Video Trailer (1:08)				has extra

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Notes

Mondo Macabro’s “Limited Edition” Blu-ray includes a 20-page booklet with writing by Roberto Curti (“She Who Laughs Last: Piero Schivazappa’s ‘Femina ridens’”). Reissued as a standard edition without booklet (2022/02/08).
Shameless’ DVD is also available in the “Pop Erotica Fest” box set.

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Production Design in “The Laughing Woman” (24:57)
Marquis de Sade vs Praying Mantis (32:51)

Presentation	Mondo Macabro BD 2021 Video File 1 Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Resolution: 1080p24 Overall bit rate: 22.00 Mbps Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Length:1:30:07.136 File size: 17.88 GiB Audio File 1 Language: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 1585 kbps Bit depth: 16-bit File 2 Language: Italian DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono Sampling rate: 48 kHz Bit rate: 1594 kbps Bit depth: 16-bit Subtitles English
Presentation	Shameless BD 2024 Video File 1 Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Resolution: 1080p Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audio File 1 Language: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono File 2 Language: Italian DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono Subtitles English English SDH
Extras	Audio Commentary by Kat Ellinger Mondo Macabro BD
	Production Design in “The Laughing Woman” - Video Essay by Rachael Nisbet (24:57, 1080p) Mondo Macabro BD
	The Female Gaze - Interview with Actress Dagmar Lassander (28:21) Shameless BD
	Marquis de Sade vs Praying Mantis - Interview with Director/Co-Writer Piero Schivazappa (32:51, 1080p) Mondo Macabro BD
	Animated Foto-Novel - By Jacques Spohr (2:56, 1080p) Mondo Macabro BD
	Italian Theatrical Trailer (3:18, 1080p) Mondo Macabro BD
	US Theatrical Trailer (1:39, 1080p) Mondo Macabro BD