De Sade (film)

De Sade
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Cy Endfield Uncredited: Roger Corman Gordon Hessler
Written by	Richard Matheson
Based on	Life of Marquis de Sade
Produced by	Samuel Z. Arkoff James H. Nicholson
Starring	Keir Dullea Senta Berger Lilli Palmer Anna Massey Sonja Ziemann John Huston
Cinematography	Richard Angst
Edited by	Max Benedict Hermann Haller
Music by	Billy Strange
Production companies	American International Pictures CCC Film Trans-Continental Filmproduktion
Distributed by	American International Pictures (United States) Columbia Film-Verleih (West Germany)
Release dates	September 25, 1969 (1969-09-25) (New York)[1] August 1970 (1970-08) (West Germany)[2]
Running time	113 minutes
Countries	United States West Germany
Language	English
Box office	$1.25 million[3][4][5]

De Sade (German: Das Ausschweifende Leben des Marquis De Sade) is a 1969 American-German drama film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger and Lilli Palmer. It is based on the life of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, named Louis Alphonse Donatien in the film.

Dullea, in his first film role since the 1968 release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, plays the title character in a film characterized by its psychedelic imagery and go-go sensibilities. As the dying Marquis recalls his life out of sequence, he is terrorized by his uncle and haunted by his own past of debauchery.

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jürgen Kiebach.