Introduced by filmmaker Bruce LaBruce.

Director: Agustí Villaronga Run Time: 110 min. Format: 35mm Rating: NR Release Year: 1986 Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Bruce LaBruce: “A modern cult classic, In a Glass Cage, directed by Spaniard Agustí Villaronga, is a variation on the themes of sadomasochism and the relationship between sex and Thanatos under fascism first explored by Liliana Cavani in the influential The Night Porter. As in that excellent film, in which concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling checks into a Vienna hotel and has a torrid affair with the night porter (Dirk Bogarde), a former S.S. officer with whom she had been forced into a sadomasochistic relationship in the camps thirteen years earlier, In a Glass Cage concerns a Nazi who, years later, becomes involved with someone with whom he had had a bizarre sexual relationship in a concentration camp. In this instance, however, the man (Klaus/Gunter Meisner) is a pedophile and the former victim, a young boy.”