Sexy Seventies Summernight

A journey back in time to the permissive 1970s with two cult films, each of which spawned a whole series of popular sequels and imitators: In the commedia sexy first film in the FLOTTEN-TEENS series, cool 17-year-old Loredana turns the heads of the men around her, then falls in love with the class newcomer from America, who shortly afterwards turns out to be a real bad boy ... The trials and tribulations of the first time and first love are also at the centre of EIS AM STIEL: If its sequels are also increasingly trimmed for slapstick, the Israeli-German cinema hit basically tells a bittersweet coming-of-age romance that strikes surprisingly harsh tones towards the end. Which is not to relativise the not always kosher directing methods and gender images with which the production later made a name for itself.
(Florian Widegger)