Ecstasy - The Trial of the Satan Girls
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| Original title | Ecstasy - The Trial of the Satan Girls |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script | Rolf Olsen |
| production | Rudolf Kalmowicz |
| camera | Peter Tost |
| cut | Alfred Srp |
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Ecstasy - The Trial of Satan's Girls is an exploitation film by Rolf Olsen from 1977/78 .
action
Four underage girls - Lotte Senkiewicz, Mandy Lockwood, Dagmar Richard and Rosemary Schefferson - are on trial because, as disciples of Satan in a holiday camp during sex games , they are alleged to have killed a boy named Kurt as part of a ritual murder and his friend who she was because of this Blackmailed blood act tried to have seriously injured. The chairman of the court Niklas is now trying this delicate case, which is being followed in the press in a sensationalist gimmicky way ("Wild sex games in the coffin", "Sex games, black masses", "Trial against devil worshipers", "Satan children in court") with a high In order to prevent external influences on the course of the process, the judge excludes the public right from the start.
Flashbacks - including numerous documentary snippets and fade-ins from the so-called Mondo films - now show how the deed came about. The girls are not aware of any guilt, behave fundamentally wrong and even abuse the judge in the room. Rosemary, who plays a central role in this killing case, misbehaves and puts on a show. When she was questioned, she stood up and spoke in a disguised, deep, male voice, “I am Aleister Crowley and I was allowed to speak out of this girls body”. Judge Niklas feels compelled to adjourn the process in order to order her medical examination. In the end it turns out that Kurt's murder was quite banally an act of extreme jealousy because Kurt didn't have the same interest in Rosemary as she did in him and preferred to get involved with another girl.
Production notes
Ecstasy - The trial against the Satan girls took place in the winter of 1977/78 in various locations, especially in Africa. The film was shot in and around Munich , as well as in India , Benin , Tanzania , Togo , Ghana , Uganda , Gabon and the Ivory Coast . The premiere took place on April 14, 1979 in the Rex cinema in Bremerhaven . For international distribution, director Olsen called himself "Emerson Fox".
criticism
In the lexicon of international films , it says: "A show piece, recorded in various exotic locations and pepped up with archive material, about a trial against schoolgirls who have committed a ritual murder of a boy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unnamed Heinz Hölscher and Franz X. Lederle were also involved in the camera.
- ^ German Institute for Film Studies (Ed.): German Films 1978, compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki. P. 47
- ↑ Ecstasy - The Trial of the Satan Girls. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2018 .