Did they cut part of the scene out from the US DVD? Was she raped by Hans or just sex for favor?
shareNot quite sure if any scenes may have been cut, but my perception was that she allowed Hans to sleep with her hoping that it would save laslo.
shareNo it wasnt cut, it wasnt ever filmed to begin with, they assume you get the point by showing the before and after events
shareI think it was quite clear infact, when Hans takes her dress off and forcibly kisses her and in the very next scene, Hans is getting dressed and IILONA is sitting naked on the bed with her hair ruffled up. Quite clear eh?
shareI always thought it was sex for favor.
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It's interesting to consider that love scenes with Andras and Lazlo are erotic and partially explicit, while the sex scene with Hans is only implied--as if this particular act is too ugly to show. By the way, I consider this a rape-- Hans knows that Ilona will do anything to save Lazlo, and only he could think of this as a "favor." (He doesn't intend to keep his end of the "bargain," either.)
shareLet me get this straight: If a man boinks a woman while suspecting that she has an ulterior motive, then it is rape? If that is true then all intellectual meaning of the word "rape" has been totally lost.
shareIf a man coerces a woman into having sex with him by having his friend hold a gun to her boyfriend's head, that is inarguably rape -- even if the rapist never actually comes out and says that his friend will shoot if the woman doesn't have sex with him, the implicit threat is understood by all parties.
The scene in the film was morally equivalent to that, so yes, it was rape. Hans' "friend" was the Nazi army, and the "gun" was Auschwitz, but the dynamic was the same.