Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
Director: Agnès Poirier
Cast: Anna Sigalevitch, Annie Sprinkle, Gerard Damiano Jr., Larry Revene, Whitney Strub, Nine Antico, Paulita Pappel, Didier Philippe-Gérard
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Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
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Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided a…
53m
January 29, 2022
Agnès Poirier
Anna Sigalevitch, Annie Sprinkle, Gerard Damiano Jr.
Documentary, History, TV Movie