Bacchanales érotiques

Schoolgirl Report #4 (1972)

*** (out of 4)

Fourth film in the popular German series once again passes itself off as a documentary on teenage sexuality but in reality it's just another excuse to exploit sex and nudity, which is never a bad thing. We get another large group of stories ranging from a high school girl seducing her teacher to a sexual offender passing himself off as a school doctor in order to see girls naked. Also on hand is a black woman in a racist school who gets raped by some girls who want to see why men would want her. Another sequence has Euro legend Christina Lindberg playing a poor girl who has to share her bedroom with her older brother and soon finds herself having sexual fantasies over him. These stories are just some of the new ones on display here so if you enjoyed the first three in the series, as I did, then you should enjoy what's offered up here. The perverted nature is certainly on high alert as the stories here are all rather bizarre. We have the ones, like the stuff with race, that tries to be serious. We also get some that are so over the top that you can't help but laugh and the one with the doctor is the perfect example of this. We also have a nice comical story where girls start a hooker ring just to raise some money for their friend. There's no question this thing is sexploitation at its finest but if you're going to be easily offended then it's probably best to stay away. For others just looking for cheap fun then this fourth film once again delivers the goods. Fans of Lindberg are certainly going to want to check this out even though of all the women here she's probably dressed the most. There's no question she's a beautiful woman and that's never a bad thing.

This is the only installment in this 10-film (I think) series of social-issue sexploitation I've managed yet to see. The English dubbing is hilariously bad, the soundtrack music by Gert Wilden is groooooovy and some of the interior furnishings on display are very cool like a TV set inside a white plastic shell. This is basically frothy and lighthearted in style even though it deals with subjects like gang rape, racism and incest. Swedish cult starlet Christina Lindberg appears in the most controversial segment as the girl who lusts after her brother.

This movie is a fake documentary on the sexual habits of teenagers/college age youth. The deep, newscaster-like voice of the narrator leads us through a series of vignettes, with different actors. The first deals with a girl who wants to trade sex for grades, which seems sort of cliche. In another episode, a black girl and her white boyfriend deal with their classmates' racism. There are a few other mini-plots, all with the requisite nudity and implied sex. The episodes focus on one or two characters who undergo a sort of 1 dimensional coming-of-age process. The fantastic, kitschy soundtrack is by Gert Wilden and his orchestra. A lot of his "Schulmadchen" hits seem to come from this movie. Also known as 'Campus Swingers'. The title translates as 'what drives parents to despair'. I never knew Germans could be so hip!

The 1970's German "schulmadchen report" films seemed to have been consigned to the dust-bin of history only a few years ago, but more recently, perhaps due to the current "barely legal" fad in American porn, many have been resurrected on DVD. But while the modern American "barely legal" porn movies (from the admittedly very little I've seen) either feature disturbingly young looking girls barely over the age of consent or the typical 25-year-old porn starlets with over-sized breast implants and tattoos very unconvincingly portraying "teenagers", the schulmadchen films are a very happy medium. The girls are fresh and nubile girl-next-door types, but don't really look underage. The most famous actress in these films, Cristina Lindberg, was in her early 20's then, and by now, of course, is old enough to be the mother of someone like me. (If Lindberg WERE your mother though, would you EVER stop breast-feeding?).

Like the rest of these films this consists of a number of sexy vignettes supposedly based on what real-life German teenagers of the day were up to. In the first one, an attractive senior is flunking math. So what can she do to get her strict male teacher to give her a passing grade? Hmmm? In another vignette a creep guy disguises himself as a doctor so he can give "check-ups" to naive teenage girls home alone (which would never work in America where doctors don't make house-calls even if you call them). This gives one horny young couple an idea of how they can get together right under their parents' noses. Then there is a sensitive story of interracial relationships and gratuitous shower scenes. Finally the most controversial story has the aforementioned Crisina Lindberg playing a girl who's in love with her brother. Despite the appalling lack of taste here, Lindberg as always is the quintessential actress for these kind of films since she had the fresh, innocent face of an 18-year-old virgin and the voluptuous body of a burlesque era stripper.

I would recommend this for all the perverts out there, of course, especially as an alternative to wasting your money on more modern-day (and more morally dubious) "barely legal" porn. But movies like this will also certainly appeal to ANYONE who enjoys undraped females, as well as people like me who might watch sex films more ironically. Movies like this may have "driven parents to despair" in 1970's Germany, but they're sure a whole lot of fun today.