Blu-ray, DVD Release: Paprika

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 9, 2016
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Cult Epics


Filmmaker Tinto Brass’s (Monamour) titillating 1991 erotic comedy Paprika stars the voluptuous Italian starlet Deborah Caprioglio as a young country girl who takes a job in a brothel in order to help her fiancée get the money to start his own business.

Deborah Caprioglio is Paprika

Deborah Caprioglio is Paprika

In her new found work of pleasure, the innocent girl’s life slowly turns into sleaze and degradation and she becomes a professional prostitute named Paprika, a nickname given to her by the madam of the establishment.

Brass’s personal and faithful adaptation of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill has been issued on DVD and VHS a handful of times over the past quarter of a century, but Cult Epics’ new release represents the first time it has been ve been available on Blu-ray in the U.S.

The Blu-ray and DVD contain the following features:

  • New Restored High-definition Transfer
  • Welcome to the Whorehouse (Featurette) HD 2015
  • HD Trailers
  • Lobby Card Video Gallery
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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.