Brass' films in the 1980s and early 1990s had mainly been adaptations of famous literary works usually in the erotic genre, namely "The Key" ("La chiave"), "The Mistress of the Inn" ("Miranda"), the novel "Le lettere da Capri" by Mario Soldati ("Capriccio"), the novel "Snack Bar Budapest" by Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre (eponymous), "Fanny Hill" ("Paprika"), and the novel "L'uomo che guarda" by Alberto Moravia ("The Voyeur"), while 2002 film "Senso '45" is an adaptation of "Senso", previously filmed by Luchino Visconti.