Innocent teenager, Inga, goes to visit her sister in Stockholm, and finds her living with her secret boyfriend, Casten. Away from her controlling mother, she slowly embraces change, and succ... Read allInnocent teenager, Inga, goes to visit her sister in Stockholm, and finds her living with her secret boyfriend, Casten. Away from her controlling mother, she slowly embraces change, and succumbs to a boy's charms.Innocent teenager, Inga, goes to visit her sister in Stockholm, and finds her living with her secret boyfriend, Casten. Away from her controlling mother, she slowly embraces change, and succumbs to a boy's charms.
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- (as Kristina Lindberg)
- Bjorn
- (as Leif Näslun)
- Father
- (as Per Axel Arosenius)
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- (as Itela Frodi)
- Brita
- (as Vivianne Öjengen)
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Although 'Maid in Sweden' offers us a coherent story, one cannot overlook its downright lousy acting - in particular that of Lindberg herself. Its shooting could also have been done better, even by the standards of 1971.
My DVD also offers a recent 10 minutes-interview with 57-year old Christina Lindberg. Although she answers her questions politely enough, one feels that Lindberg has left the nude shooting in her young life behind her a long ago ago already.
You kind of get the idea that the whole flimsy plot of this movie is an excuse to get the luscious Christina Lindberg naked as early and often as possible (which alone might make it worth watching for some). Unlike an earlier reviewer, I found this pretty hard to take seriously as a coming-of-age story, but if you do take it seriously the rape scenes might be considered pretty offensive. Personally, I took the whole thing as a fantasy. It's well known that both women and (non-rapist)men often indulge in these kind of rape fantasies. As genre critic Thomas Weissner once astutely pointed out, rape in real-life is certainly not fun or entertaining, but then neither is murder and we certainly get a kick out of that as long as it's put in the fictional/fantasy context of cinema.
Interestingly the sisters here are named "Inga" and "Greta", which are the same names of the characters in Joe Sarno's "Seduction of Inga" (the sequel to his ground-breaking erotic classic "Inga") which was released the same year. These are no doubt pretty common Swedish names, but it's certainly possible that this was meant to ride the coattails of "Inga", and that Christina Lindberg might have been cast in this (one of her earliest roles) because she kind of resembles "Inga" star Marie Lillejedahl (albeit with an even more impressive torso). Lindberg herself would later star in Sarno's best film "Young Playthings". Like a lot of the more famous Swedish erotica this has a lot of American names in the cast and an American title (which makes absolutely no sense given the movie). The voices were dubbed either by the actresses themselves or by other Swedish women, so the dialogue is either more sexy or more incoherent (depending on your point of view) than your usual softcore/sexploitation film. This movie is clearly not for everybody, but you know who you are.
If you want to watch a post-60's genre flick of Swedish culture in the early 70's this movie is probably a fair example. But most likely it's the near X-rated skin and sex that will draw most curious viewers.
As far as seeing nude females and some sex action, it's disgusting that much of it results from rape, and the plot has almost no sensitivity to the character's feelings or trauma.
As far as the acting, the plot is very thin and the actors as well. There is little depth or purpose for this movie aside from being a vehicle for nudity and sex.
If you enjoyed movies such as Candy (Ewa Aulin) and enjoy seeing a character repeatedly sexually abused, then you will probably enjoy this movie, unfortunately.
This movie is basically sexploitation.
Did you know
- TriviaFilm debut of Christina Lindberg as well as her first English-language role and first nude scenes.
- Quotes
[last lines]
[Inga's boyfriend knocks on her window after she is back home from her sexual awakening in Stockholm]
Helen - Inga's friend: [sitting with Inga in her room] Here are the boys. Ole wants to take you to the movie.
Inga: I have to ask mother first.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996)
- SoundtracksFirst Taste of Love
Sung by John Tippet, Anthony Bird, Paul Burchill, Paul Anstey and Paul Hamblin
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