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Originally Posted by anonjohn

Sweet Country 1987 @45-48m and flashbacks @1h28m during r-pe scene.

Context: set in Chile in 1973 following the Nixon-era US-backed bloody and brutal fascist military coup which deposed a democratically-elected Marxist government. By coincidence, I write this on the first anniversary of another attempt to overturn a democratic election by violent, unconstitutional means. This scene is in a stadium used as a makeshift concentration camp to sexually humiliate and abused dissident women as in Iran today.

According to IMDB
In order to achieve the feeling of horror in a scene where a gathering of female prisoners are harassed and psychologically tortured in the nude, director Michael Cacoyannis decided to appeal for volunteers rather than professional actors, asking both his associates and friends. Cacoyannis interviewed women of different nationalities, including English, French, Americans and Greeks.

Most of these women had never even seen a film camera, let alone undressed before one. Money was never an incentive for them. Cacoyannis said, "I explained that their inexperience in acting was an advantage, that their lack of artifice, the spirituality of their spontaneous reactions, would transcend physical realism, the way certain paintings can."

At first he was not too successful "recruiting" volunteers, but soon found the women he needed. One was a well-known author, another a journalist, three were college professors, others university students, secretaries or just housewives. The shooting of this sequence was completed in five very stressful hours, and the reactions were neither planned nor rehearsed. At the end of the shooting day, their eyes still full of tears, some of them expressed their gratitude for what they called "a unique experience".

5 hours to shoot about 2 minutes of screened nudity - the 20 women must have nude for some time.

I wonder which women were the college professors, and the journalist. Certain professions make a nude scene better, and teachers and reporters are at the top of the list (along with policewomen).