Научный филологический журнал
Институт мировой литературы
имени А.М. Горького
Российской академии наук
A Distributor: Image Entertainment
For collectors of cult, extreme, or historically significant cinema – essential. For everyone else – approach with caution and an open mind.
The problem? Producer Bob Guccione saw rushes of the legitimate sex scenes and had a different idea: Hardcore inserts. After Brass delivered his director’s cut (roughly 156 minutes of political drama), Guccione fired him and reshot/re-edited the film. The infamous is the “Guccione cut”—a bizarre hybrid where scenes of unsimulated fellatio, orgies, and dismemberment are spliced awkwardly between McDowell’s Shakespearian monologues.
If you want the infamous version that includes the explicit unrated footage added by Bob Guccione, look for these specific older releases: Imperial Edition (2007)