Schamlos

"My name is Alexander Pohlmann, I'm 20 years old. I come from a small, lousy circus family. I was a knife thrower and marksman. When I was 15, I got fed up and ran away. I built up a young gang in the big city. We have contracts with a lot of pubs and shops. We protect them. We don't make a bad profit. But then I met Annabella, and that's when all the shit started. Annabella is a strip dancer and all that. She's hot as an empty shotgun." This monologue marks the beginning and end of THE Austrian exploitation milestone: one of the few hinges between the half-strength films and the sex wave that combines genre conventions with garish staging and trash with actionism (an Otto Mühl happening takes centre stage). (Florian Widegger)