The Fiancée (Die Verlobte) is a grim film that offers very few moments of levity during its hour and 45-minute running time. It’s a women-in-prison film, but has nothing in common with the likes of Caged Heat or the dozens of other women-in-prison, exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s. There's nothing salacious here—just …
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