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3/10
More off-putting than on
Wolfgang_Rodenbach3 December 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Normally I don't mind watching some realistic looking people in German smut from three decades ago, but this one has absolutely nothing to recommend itself. It's just a some ugly people doing the nasty in a non existent story narrated in the first person by the two leads. And the first lead does not really count anyway. A skinny, smug secretary talks to the camera while sitting at a seaside restaurant and tells us about how she rented an apartment only to find a couple of camera's in the bedroom. So, she called the previous owner to hear her side of the story, meaning the bulk of the picture is a flashback within a flashback. I'll warn you right now that the previous owner, Marietta Stechmuller (Martina Roll), is less good looking than the one who opens the film, and when we finally arrive back where we started from near the end, number one turns out to look better with her clothes on than off. What a waist. Now that I think about it, this 'framework story' might just have been added at the last minute when they found out the film was running 15 minutes short.

So, In case you're still not convinced you should Skip this one, Marietta is a hardworking hooker who likes to record and watch her escapades back, not to sell them or blackmail her clients, just to look at them with her girlfriend. She also enjoys talking to the camera when there's nobody else around. The first thing she does on camera is take a pee on the toilet, then have a bath in yellow water. Sheesh. That turned me off Martina Roll for good, which is bad news as she dominates the next hour or so.

In prolonged succession, Martina helps a virgin boy get his rocks off, a hairy Italian who wants to take her from behind, and lets her nosy next door neighbor (Monika Hirschman?) watch. The neighbor comes in handy once more when two men arrive and Marietta is asked to call a girlfriend. This foursome finishes just in time before the happy hooker's best friend (Jeannie Baker) comes over to visit, and the two of them lie down on the soiled bed to watch the home movies Fraulein Stechmuller has spend the day making. Then we're supposed to believe she plays them on a single 8 projector without turning down the lights or putting up a projection screen. The footage we see spliced in is simply recycled from earlier scenes, only this time with new moaning by Martina and Jeannie. In case you've been paying attention, you'll have gathered that this means we see flashbacks within the flashback of a flashback.

Finally Siggi Buchner drops in unexpectedly to join the ladies, who joke about using Marietta's two headed rubber appliance on his behind (as well as what appears to be a golden shower reference). Even the attempts at humor are disgusting in this one. Apparently cult star Patricia Rhomberg makes an appearance as an extra along with director Hans Billian somewhere in this picture, but I failed to notice it as I had my head in a bucket a couple of times.

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