Walerian Borowczyk

Filmed both in color and black-and-white, concerns the residents of the mythical island of Goto. Goto III is the pompous dictator who allows children to witness public executions and has criminals fight it out in a theater to resolve their differences. Everyone is assigned a menial position, leading to full employment but aimless pursuits and no chance of social advancement.

Walerian Borowczyk's first explicitly erotic feature, IMMORAL TALES presents a veritable cavalcade of depravity: cosmic fellatio, transcendental masturbation, blood-drenched lesbianism and papal incest. It tells four stories, each delving further back in time, as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilisation, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzsébet Báthory, or present-day teenagers.

Walerian Borowczyk's first explicitly erotic feature, IMMORAL TALES presents a veritable cavalcade of depravity: cosmic fellatio, transcendental masturbation, blood-drenched lesbianism and papal incest. It tells four stories, each delving further back in time, as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilisation, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzsébet Báthory, or present-day teenagers.

In the eighth year after the birth of Christ, Rome under the reign of Augustus; the Roman tribune, jealous Macarius (Michel Placido) brings his beautiful young wife, Claudia, (Marina Pierro) to his mother, Clio because he has to go to war. But she gets permission to follow the lessons of Roman poet Ovid (Massimo Girotti), who preaches "art of love", libertine love in the amphitheater. During this course, the uniquely sophisticated art of love is practiced. Practical lessons are given by Macarius's wife and his mother.

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower classes knew their place and stayed away from cigars meant only for the privileged. However, after he and his society for cigar smokers watch an advert by British tobacco importers W.D. & H.O. Wills explaining their successive methods of cigar-making, his elitist ideals are shaken.