DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM! * * * * * * * * * * * * Seems to me that a lot of the reviews for this film are innaccurate. The Stark character fakes castrating the Kohlver character. A number of reviews are based on the assumption that a real operation occurs.(Other reviews are in something of a grey area as regards 'factual' accuracy because their meaning is implicit rather than explicit.)