''Pink Prison'' is a 1999 erotic film for women, directed by Danish director

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, and produced by

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, a division of

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's film company

Zentropa Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Zentropa is named after the train company Zentropa in the film '' Europa'' (1991), which started the co ...

. As the follow-up to ''

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'' (1998), it was the second hard-core

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ever to have been produced by an established mainstream film production company. ''Pink Prison'' is based on the Puzzy Power Manifesto developed by Zentropa in 1997, as were Zentropa's two other sex films for women: ''

'' (1998), and ''

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'' (2005).

Plot

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stars as a photo journalist, Mila, who breaks into a men's penitentiary to get an interview with the mysterious warden and thus win a bet with her publisher. Encounters with various inmates and staff members, including the helpful Prison Chef (

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), lead her gradually closer to her goal, but all is not what it seems.

Critical reception

''Pink Prison'' was shown at

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in 1999, and at

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in 2000. The film maintains a dreamy atmosphere and manages to turn a number of porn film conventions upside down. It became a huge success, especially in

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, and won a

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in Berlin as Best Scandinavian Film. In July 2009, women's magazine ''

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'' (German edition) ranked ''Pink Prison'' as #1 in its Top Five of Die Besten Frauenpornos (best women's porn), calling it the "Vorbild für die neue Porno-Generation" (role model for the new porn-generation).''Cosmopolitan'', Juli 2009, page 30

References

External links

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Official ''Pink Prison'' site

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