Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
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Directed byJean LaFleur
Written byMarven McGara
Produced byRoger Corman
Ivan Reitman (credited as Julian Parnell)
StarringDyanne Thorne
Michel Morin
Tony Angelo
CinematographyRichard Ciupka
Edited byDebra Karen
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
BudgetCAD$250,000 (estimated)

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia, is a sexploitation "men in prison" style film produced in Canada in 1977. It serves as the third sequel to Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.[1]

Premise

Dyanne Thorne reprises her role as the title character,[2] but in this installment, Ilsa, referred to as "Comrade Colonel," oversees a 1953 Siberian gulag that mentally and physically breaks down male political prisoners in the waning days of Stalinism.

Cast

  • Dyanne Thorne as Ilsa
  • Michel Morin as Andrei Chikurin
  • Tony Angelo
  • Terry Coady
  • Howard Mauer
  • Michel Maillot
  • Jean-Guy Latour as Gregory

Reception

The B-movie website Nanarland noted that the film offers in fact 2 films in one; the reviewer also found the film less "dirty” than its predecessor but ”sillier”.[3]

References

  1. ^ Buttsworth, Sara; Abbenhuis, Maartje (2010-08-31). Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-38217-8.
  2. ^ "Morreu Dyanne Thorne, a nazi dominadora da franquia "Ilsa"". C7nema.net (in European Portuguese). 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  3. ^ Nanarland. "Ilsa, Tigresse du Goulag - la chronique de Nanarland". www.nanarland.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-19.