Hanna D. - The Girl from Vondel Park
1984 film by Rino Di Silvestro
Hanna D. - The Girl from Vondel Park (Italian: Hanna D. - La ragazza del Vondel Park; French: À seize ans dans l'enfer d'Amsterdam) is a 1984 erotic drama film directed by Rino Di Silvestro. Bruno Mattei completed the film.
Plot
Hanna is a poor girl abandoned to herself and forced to prostitute on the streets to obtain her drug fix from unscrupulous people like Miguel. But one day she meets Alex, who falls for her and helps her return to a normal life.
Cast
Ann-Gisel Glass as Hanna
Tony Serrano as Miguel
Sebastiano Somma as Alex
Donatella Damiani
Jacques Stany
Georges Millon
Fausto Lombardi
Karin Schubert as Hanna's Mother
Release
Hanna D. was released as Angel in the Dark on home video in Germany in October 1988.
Reception
The film has been widely described as an Italian rip-off of the German film Christiane F. In the German Fischer film almanach from 1989, the review described the film as strictly based on "voyeurism" opposed to any enlightenment about the Hannah's plight.
See also
List of Italian films of 1984
List of French films of 1984
References
Sources
Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
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