Das unbezähmbare Herz (2004)

Powdered wigs and whalebone corsets abound in the romantic German period drama Das unbezähmbare Herz (2004). Bettina Zimmermann stars as Angélique Labiche, an ambitious young peasant girl who woos a duke (Stefan Jürgens) and then attempts to use her clout to escape a life of servitude. Labiche’s demanding madam (Gesche Tebbenhoff) shows why aristocrats have all the fun in a scene of breast-baring flirtation, but it’s Zimmermann who gets the last laugh as she sleeps her way to the top of the social pyramid.