Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her first client, naval officer Franco. Despite this attraction, she begins her climb through the sex trade, residing in Italy’s most illustrious brothels.
Martine Brochard (born 1944) is a French actress and writer. Born in Paris, Brochard debuted in 1968 in a minor role in François Truffaut's Baisers volés. In 1970 she moved to Italy, where she became a minor star in genre films, including poliziotteschi, commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films. From the mid 70's she regularly appears in Italian TV-series and on stage. In 1995 and 1999 she released two collection of stories for children, La gallina blu e altri racconti and Zaffiretto il vampiretto e altri racconti. In 2003 Brochard was diagnosed with leukemia, a disease from which she was able to recover. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martine Brochard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.