Slaves: Jess Franco’s rare and controversial erotic thriller coming to DVD fully uncut and totally remastered Out of all the pictures Spanish exploitation maverick Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich released, 1977’s Slaves is perhaps the rarest and most sought after. The film (also known as Swedish Nympho Slaves and Die Sklavinnen) stars Franco’s wife and muse, the inimitable Lina Romay (Marquise De Sade) in a rare villainous role as Madame Arminda, the owner a notorious high end brothel called The Pagoda, who oversees the kidnapping and sexual torture and humiliation of a young society girl (Martine Stedil, Barbed Wire Dolls).