It wasn't the nightingale
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | It wasn't the nightingale |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 84, 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sigi Rothemund |
| script | Wolfgang Bauer |
| production |
Lisa Film ( Karl Spiehs ) |
| music | Gerhard Heinz |
| camera | Heinz Hölscher |
| cut | Eva Zeyn |
| occupation | |
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It wasn't the nightingale is a German erotic film romance by Sigi Rothemund from 1974 with Sylvia Kristel in the lead role.
action
The focus of the story, which is not very active, is an initiation story with a sexually inexperienced young man as the protagonist. Pauli is the pubescent son of the rich businessman and playboy Ralph. The senior prime minister is supposed to spend the summer in the southern climes with his father in a villa by a lake in beautiful surroundings and is looking for himself and erotic adventures. Pauli wants to know who he is, wants to finally find love or at least have his first sexual experience. Preferably both. On the train ride to see his father, Pauli meets the attractive Yvonne, in whose compartment he sits down immediately after risking a look into the section of the sleeping beauty. A little later the beautiful woman disappears and has sex with a strange man in the train toilet. Pauli is thunderous when not only is he picked up by his father at the train station, but she too. No question about it: the unfaithful Yvonne is obviously the lover of her own father.
The mood in the Villa am See has been sexually heated from the start, women also get on with each other. While swimming in the nearby lake, Pauli meets the beautiful young Andrea. Both begin to get along well and Andrea knows how to seduce Pauli with just a few tricks. When a friend of Pauli starts fiddling with her during the boat trip with Andrea, Pauli becomes jealous and the competitor is thrown overboard. Pauli uses the motorboat as a weapon and rushes past the plump young man kicking in the water until he suddenly no longer appears. That night the water police are looking for the person who has gone underground. Eventually he is pulled out of the water. Pauli is so emotionally confused that, after watching Andrea in airy dress playing badminton, he suddenly attacks the house maid of the villa and tries to force her to have sex. Only the rushing father can prevent an impending rape.
The next day, the father and his lover and Pauli and his new girlfriend go on a trip to Verona . During a visit to the Colosseum there, Ralph and Andrea disappear and have sex with each other. Pauli catches both of them having intercourse and runs away, completely confused, and back to the hotel. There Yvonne has made up and dressed up and begins to comfort the desperate Pauli, then to seduce him. Back at the villa, Pauli clearly lets Andrea feel how disappointed he is with her while playing tennis by literally chasing her across the court. Finally, the two young people reconcile and they finally sleep together on the tennis court. The holidays are over and Pauli is on his way home. Like Yvonne too. This time it's the two of them who have sex on the train.
Production notes
It wasn't the nightingale , also known as The Love Student , was created in the summer of 1974 in Verona and on Lake Wörthersee and was premiered on November 28, 1974. The film was later re-released under the title Die Niece der O.
Erich Tomek took over the production management, Robert Fabiankovich took care of the equipment, Otto Retzer was the production manager.
useful information
Leading actress Sylvia Kristel came to film fame in the same year (1974) with the title role in the erotic strip Emanuela . Her co-star Jean-Claude Bouillon was no longer a stranger to Germany either. Two years earlier, the German television series Alexander Zwo started with great success on ARD with him in the lead role.
The film title It was not the nightingale is a literary allusion to a legendary dialogue half-sentence ("It was the nightingale and not the lark") in the famous love night scene of Romeo and Juliet in the Shakespearean drama of the same name . During her visit to Verona, Sylvia Kristel even recreates the balcony scene as a tribute to Shakespeare.
criticism
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Behind high demands is a dime novel draped with sex insoles and only rarely interspersed with irony."
Web links
- It was not the nightingale in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It wasn't the nightingale at filmportal.de
Individual proof
- ↑ It wasn't the nightingale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 20, 2017 .