Maladolescenza has been banned in Germany since July 28, 2006. With consideration of German laws it is child-pornography (Paragraph 184 b StGB).
Banned in the Netherlands since 2010 because it's considered to be child pornography; it's the only film that ever got banned in the Netherlands.
In a 1977 interview with the newspaper 'La Stampa', Lara Wendel recounted how she was chosen to star in this film.
"It was the producer Franco Cancellieri who noticed me. He stopped me while I was leaving the church with my mother. At first, his proposal seemed absurd, improbable. But after the first moment of surprise and disbelief we accepted.
When the producer introduced me to the director, I was still a bit incredulous. Pier Giuseppe Murgia examined me for a long time and then said: 'I'm fine with it, no audition is needed'. But until the day of the first take I was afraid that they would reconsider, that at the last moment I would be replaced. "
Asked if during the shooting, the director made her repeat the scenes many times, Lara replied:" Oh no! There was no need. He claims I'm instinctive. I immediately do well what I am told to do. He insulted me to make me cry the first few times, he called me stupid. But then he realized that it was enough to say to me: 'cry!' and I cried, without difficulty. "
In May 1977, at the press conference for the presentation of the film, Eva Ionesco and Lara Wendel were asked how they felt about filming the nudity and sex scenes. Ionesco said that when she saw herself on the screen, she felt disgusted and that she didn't think the sex scenes were that racy.
Wendel replied that the most important thing for her was to become an actress and for this she was ready to do anything.
Regarding their colleague Martin Loeb (who wasn't present at the conference), they both said he was ugly and he hesitated taking his clothes off in love scenes.
An old Italian publication showed a black-and-white photo of Eva Ionesco at the age of 12 as she attended the premiere showing of "Maladolescenza." Captioned "BIMBA TRAGICA," it included this quote in Italian from Eva about that film: "I earned 9000 francs for showing the hole (i.e., vagina)." In the Openers column in the October 1979 issue of Oui magazine, Eva (aged 14 at the time) said she intended to earn her high school diploma "because you can't keep making a living showing your ass all your life." Oui also indicated that Eva had already had a "genuine sexual experience" by that time.