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| View Larger Image | Punish Me | DVDStarring: Ullman; Kroymann; Vollenklee
Directed By: Angelina Maccarone
| List Price: | $26.95 | | Price: | $24.49 | | You Save: | $2.46 (9%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 85 minutes | | Format: | Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Studio: | PICTURE THIS | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.66:1 | | Release Date: | September 11, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 64,718th |
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FEATURES | - Jan is a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent placed under the watchful eye of Elsa Seifert, a stern, driven, and uncompromising 49-year-old probation officer. Elsa cares for her charges, but tolerates no stepping out of line. But now, as she approaches 50, cracks begin to appear in Elsa's professionalism. As her grown daughter prepares to leave home, and her marriage becomes more and more strained
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Product Description
Jan is a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent placed under the watchful eye of Elsa Seifert, a stern, driven, and uncompromising 49-year-old probation officer. Elsa cares for her charges, but tolerates no stepping out of line. But now, as she approaches 50, cracks begin to appear in Elsa's professionalism. As her grown daughter prepares to leave home, and her marriage becomes more and more strained, Elsa longs for the intensity of experiencing something outside of her routine, something outside the norm. Young, obsessed, Jan eagerly fills this void, offering to sexually subjugate himself to her. And Elsa enters willingly into this risky venture, desiring the verboten, but knowing it cannot end well. Winner of the Golden Leopard prize at the 2006 Locarno Film Festival, PUNISH ME features engaging performances from Kostja Ullmann, one of the standout, lead actors in the theatrical release SUMMER STORM and from Maren Kroymann, a distinguished lesbian actress from Germany. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 12 reviews)
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A thought provoking and sexy movie. by E. Irwin (California)  5 Stars
August 29, 2009
I got this movie because I had read on a website run by a submissive man that this movie comes closest to reality, in his experience, and I'm glad that I did. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The emotion and interaction between the two characters is intriguing, in no small part due to the actors' fine performances.
Jan is a juvenile delinquent who becomes obsessed with his 50 year old probation officer, Elsa, and they get into a sadomasochist relationship, but there is a lot more going on than simply that. Jan knows exactly what he wants even if he might not understand why. And it's not just about pain for him. He is also thrilled by acts of submission and obedience, enthusiastically showering her feet with kisses and clearly taking sensual pleasure in doing whatever she asks when she issues her commands with the right tone.
Jan is just a boy and yet he has a man's confidence about what he needs (or thinks he needs). And he is not afraid of it, any of it. He unapologetically and without hesitation chooses her over friends several times. In their intimate scenes together, he shifts so easily between his regular self and aroused anticipation, going from rolling a cigarette, to wide-eyed and panting, and back again without a hint of embarassment. He buys a collar and leash for himself, wanting to belong to her, and he kisses her with such reverence that perhaps it is not merely an obsession after all.
I found it interesting that the movie hints that no one else seems to recognize this tendency in him, even the judge who has known him for 3 years and Elsa's husband. Jan offers himself only to Elsa, as if he'd been waiting for someone like her to come along and claim him.
Elsa is at first reluctant to deal with him and initially believes that him following her is just him acting up for attention. But interestingly she begins to understand what he wants without him having to actually tell her. By the time of their first "session" he had made suggestive advances but he had not mentioned wanting to be hit. She figured that part out on her own, so he was clearly right about her "wanting to do things to him" or at least having a predilection towards being a dominate woman. The submissive nature of his clues might have gone unrecognized by another woman or been thought of as a joke. She could have assumed that he was playing a cruel game with her but something in Elsa understood him.
I think that the reason why the writers of the movie choose to make the male character a 16 year old boy was that a boy was able to bring beauty and innocence to the relationship. This helped to ensure that the audience wasn't as bogged down by preconceived notions about submissive men or worried about Elsa's safety with a strange man. We get to see the tenderness and understanding behind these types of activities without being distracted by sex and fetish.
The ending of the movie was not quite disappointing but jarring, however we are too used to American movies that tell you everything that happens until they live happily ever after and also generally tell you what to think of everything too. A film like this is not trying to tell you the answers but ask you questions. At the end you are left in a place where you should be asking yourself what you wanted to happen between them. Is this obsession or love? Is it fair to dismiss his desire as confusion due to an unfortunate childhood combined with the sexual exuberance of youth? In the end, he makes a dramatic gesture that reminds her that he is a child but do you really think he will grow out of this? Is Jan's very final act yet another form of submission?
These questions are especially interesting if you know nothing about this lifestyle/desire or if you have feelings against it. You might be surprised by how you feel about Jan and/or Elsa and that's the point of the movie, IMHO.
On a side note, the German title of the movie, Verfolgt, means "hounded" or "pursued" not "punish me." Does the title refer to Jan pursuing Elsa or about Jan's desires hounding him? You decide.
All in all a great movie and I recommend it, if you can open yourself to its questions.
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about this DVDfilm/movie punish me....... by Ang Poon Kah (Singapore)  4 Stars
December 16, 2008
This story is basically about a stern probation officer whom is in charge of this problrmatic teenager. She found out that this late teenageris interested in sex related issues which this teenager was later with the probation officer's family after he get work from the probation officer's husband which ended up she was blamed by her husband for 'sexual' related contact with the teenager whom is still young. This in the end caused cracks in their marriage.....that's all.....
Punish Me
Review by:
Dr, MR FRanc MBBS (PhD) GPS Ang Poon Kah
Director 'lou ye'-Ang Poon Kah for film summer palace.
mode 2 first generation government people of Singapore
Assistant FED Chief (Internationale)
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Punish Me by bigboyone (johnson city , tn)  3 Stars
December 12, 2008
Lead actor ( though young ) proves he is good
other reviews allowed to NUDITY. there is non by any party in film
story is good, but strained. you can enjoy
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an interesting and enjoyable film by Akira Touya (Berlin) 4 Stars
November 05, 2008
this movie shows you believable characters and good imagery. but it is a black and white film. the german is nice to listen to though.
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Far more than I expected by TammyJo Eckhart (Bloomington, Indiana United States) 5 Stars
January 28, 2008
What I was expecting was soft porn or even porn under the guise of a story. The story and the development of the characters though was the lovely, complex even if ultimately a bit depressing at the end. However, I suspect such an affair between officer and ward would indeed have a sad ending. The acting was very believable and I've been fortunate enough to see similar sincerity in several submissives eyes in my own life. Her reluctance yet embracing of her role felt honest to me and should serve as a warning for wouldbe subs who attempt to intrigue those whom they think are vanilla. I was not disappointed at all in the film though personally I would have had a far more positive, for Elsa and Jan, ending.
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