I - a groupie

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Movie
Original title I - a groupie
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1970
length 103 (1970), 75 (DVD 2014) minutes
Age rating JMK from 18
Rod
Director Fred Williams
script Manfred Gregor
production Erwin C. Dietrich
Roger Corman
music Walter Baumgartner
Walter Senn
camera Peter Baumgartner
occupation

Ich - ein Groupie is a German sexploitation film from 1970 by Erwin C. Dietrich , with which the then 22-year-old Ingrid Steeger achieved her breakthrough as the sex film star of the 1970s in the title role.

action

The young Englishwoman Vicky goes to a concert of a rock band that is playing in a London park. Sitting on the grass, she watched the performance of the band around the charismatic singer Stewart next to all the other young people . When he spots the pretty blonde among the audience, he asks her without further ado whether she would like to come to a party afterwards. The inexperienced and naive Vicky is not averse at all, and both end up in a London apartment, where the band musicians and their followers, all groupies , make themselves comfortable. To get in the mood, they first consume hashish and then Vicky and the attractive singer have sex. In her overflowing young girl feelings, Vicky immediately speaks to Stewart of the great love, which for him is the turn-off par excellence. He hardly talks to her anymore and wants to calm Vicky down with the promise to take her on a tour that will take the band to Berlin . Vicky waits in good faith at the agreed meeting point without Stewart showing up.

She learns from another girl named Vivian that Stewart and the other band members have already left. Vivian advises Vicky not to take all of this seriously, the guys from the band are real rock'n'rollers. Vicky really wants to see Stewart again. Although there is little money available, she travels after him. Vivian suggests that Vicky could improve her finances by buying hashish in Amsterdam and selling it at a higher price in Switzerland. By hiding the fabric in her panties, she successfully gets it past the customs officer . The resale in Zurich succeeds, and she joins a group of young people who play music and have sex in the forest. While bathing in a lake, Vicky is raped by Hells Angels rockers. Her search for Stewart, however, leads her to decline from now on. Vicky gets drunk with drugs and sex parties, exploitation and black mass fairs and finally dies when she is run over by a car on the streets of West Berlin, naked in a drug frenzy .

Production notes

I - a groupie came into being in 1969, before the actual start of the sex film wave in the Federal Republic of Germany ( school girl report ). Producer Erwin C. Dietrich originally thought of producing a biker film like the one that had been successful at that time since Easy Rider . Me - a groupie was supposed to mark the beginning of Dietrich's collaboration with Hollywood-based US B-film producer Roger Corman and his production company AIP , but there were violent differences of opinion from the start. Corman was to provide the script and the director, Dietrich would take care of all the rest. With the help of Corman it was possible to win the American director Jack Hill , who actually went to Switzerland.

However, there were major problems between director Jack Hill and producer Dietrich from the start, so that Dietrich sent Hill back to the USA after only four or five days of shooting. Dietrich wrote a new script ad hoc and took over the direction as Fred Williams together with cameraman Peter Baumgartner.

The Zurich Hells Angels could be won over as paid actors for the participation. The rape scene was filmed on the Türlersee , and on the main road between Winterthur and Schaffhausen the Angels raced north with naked women on the pillion in regular traffic.

Ingrid Steeger, who was still at the beginning of her career, was given the female lead on the initiative of her boyfriend at the time, Georges Morf, who designed the posters for Dietrich's films and worked as a PR man. In a spectacular film scene she crossed a glacier completely naked in front of residents and tourists during the unauthorized filming in the Diavolezza ski area .

The film is said to have premiered in January 1970 in the United States. The German premiere took place on November 26, 1970.

useful information

The film is a typical Zeitgeist product and, with its lifestyle and the bands "Murphy Blend" and " Birth Control ", gives an interesting insight into the attitude towards life in the early 1970s. The musicians of these two bands mentioned - Bruno Frenzel, Bernd Koschmidder, Bernd Noske, Reinhold Sobotta, Wolfgang Rumler, Joachim Schmidt, Andreas Scholz and Wolf-Rüdiger Uhlig - play themselves accordingly.

There is a long version (97:45 minutes) of the film that was only released in Italy. The film was released on DVD in 2014. Little of it is believed to have been shot under the direction of Jack Hill.

In September 2016, the film was shown in the Tele 5 series The Worst Films of All Time .

criticism

In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Superficial attempt to simulate an image of the time with common stimulus moments of vulgar reports."

The evangelical film observer blows in the same horn: “Superficial and tasteless voyeur film about a groupie girl. Since it only gleefully cannibalizes the sexual side and thus reaches exactly the 'wrong' audience, it betrays its intention: cash register! "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Me - a groupie on filmforum-bremen.de
  2. ↑ Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Moneten - The Incredible Story of the Swiss Cinema Entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, p. 78
  3. ↑ Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Moneten - The Incredible Story of the Swiss Cinema Entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, p. 67
  4. ↑ Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Moneten - The Incredible Story of the Swiss Cinema Entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, p. 78
  5. ↑ Cutting report on the Ascot Elite, Blu-ray
  6. ↑ Me - a groupie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 529/1970

literature

  • Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Monets - The incredible story of the Swiss cinema entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-033-00960-3 .

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