Sensational Janine
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| Directed by | Hans Billian |
| Written by | Hans Billian |
| Based on | Josephine Mutzenbacher |
| Produced by | Gunter Otto |
| Starring | Patricia Rhomberg |
| Cinematography | Gunter Otto |
| Music by | Dave Apfelbaum |
| Distributed by | Herzog Filme |
Release date | 1976 |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
Sensational Janine (Template:Lang-de) is a 1976 West German hardcore costume drama-sex comedy film directed by Hans Billian. The film is an adaptation of the anonymous novel Josephine Mutzenbacher on the life of the eponymous and fictional fin-de-siècle Viennese courtesan.
Background
Sensational Janine features director Billian's girlfriend Patricia Rhomberg in the title role. Billian gave her the role in part because she had the proper dialect for it.[1] It became the first pornographic film to feature a humorous Viennese German, which contributed significantly to its popularity among the German-speaking audience.[2]
Josefine is a Viennese teen very curious about sex. After she is deflowered by her neighbour Frau Reinthaler's lover Horak, she starts a very active sex life. Following her mother's abrupt demise, a relationship with her stepfather begins. A lodger blackmails the two with the accusation of incest and, revealed as a pimp, he makes Josefine become a prostitute working for him. Josefine then begins a career as a sex worker, with the goal to eventually become an upscale courtesan in Vienna.[3]
Synopsis
Josefine discovers her step parents having intercourse, and gives her step brother a handjob. While Josefine's stepfather is having sex with their stepmother in one room, Patricia performs sixty-nine with her stepbrother until her stepbrother climaxes.
Josefine becomes interested in sex, and she overhears Mr. Baker and Mrs. Peabody having sex. Full of sexual excitement, Josefine waits for the right moment. The time comes when Horak Hutcherson borrows her house to store his rum in the basement for his tavern. Josefine follows Mrs. Peabody down to the basement, where she catches Mrs. Peabody having sex with Horak. Horak tries to bribe Josefine to not tell anyone, but Josefine gives him a blowjob, and Mrs Peabody wants Josefine to stop, but Josefine says that she saw Mrs. Peabody cheating on Horak with her stepfather, making Mrs. Peabody leave irritated. Josefine loses her virginity by going on top, and doing doggystyle before Horak has an orgasm.
The next few days, Josefine realizes that her breasts are developing into a full grown woman. One day, her mother had pneumonia and had to be taken down to the hospital, and her stepbrother left to do his military services. Josefine was uncomfortable with the way her stepfather was looking at her in a funny way. Josefine goes to Mr. Baker's room, where they both have intercourse (Josefine gives him a handjob, and blowjob, then they do missionary position) before Mr. Baker climaxes. Still haven't reaching an orgasm yet, Josefine takes off her clothes then goes spooning position, reverse cowgirl position, doggystyle before both of them climax, with Mr. Baker climaxing on her neck.
Josefine's stepmother dies, and feeling guilty as well as her father looking at her, Josefine begins to masturbate, sees her own stepfather masturbating intensely before falling asleep. Josefine meets a priest, where he asks her to confess her sins. Josefine doesn't know how to respond, so the priest tells her he will purify her sins with his tongue so he performs cunnilingus on her and asks her how did she commit her sins. Overcome with lust, Josefine gives the priest a blowjob then has sex with him by going into missionary position. Josefine's friend catches them, and they later have engage in a threesome with a carriage boy and an orgy with two house servants.
Her father invites a lodger to their house, and Josefine has to sleep in her father's bed. While naked, her stepfather comes in and asks her on why she's naked, but Josefine doesn't answer. While pretending to sleep, her stepfather has sex with her, and Josefine secretly enjoys this. This happens a few times, and Josefine finally breaks and has passionate sex with her stepfather. While having intercourse in the kitchen table, the lodger catches both of them, and blackmails Josefine to have sex with him in exchange for him not telling the public what happened.
At night, the lodger invites a woman, and Josefine, the guest, the woman, and the stepfather all engage in an orgy. The guest and the stepfather persuade Josefine to be an adult film star because of her new found skills, and Josefine performs a pornographic act with a man and woman. Josefine goes outside for a stroll, where a handsome man wants her for a ride to his mansion. In the middle of intercourse, Josefine breaks the fourth wall by stopping midway and tells the audience if they want to see more of her go watch her newest film coming soon, and she makes the man climax by giving him a handjob.
Cast
- Patricia Rhomberg: Josefine Mutzenbacher ("Janine")
- Sepp Gneißl: Eckhard, the first lodger
- Frithjof Klausen: Josefine's stepfather
- Siggi Buchner: Horak, the delivery man
- Birgit Zamulo: Maresi, the rich girl
- Peter Holzmüller: Priest
- Marie-France Morel: Zenzi, the older prostitute
- Edgar Wenzel: Police commissioner
Legacy
American pornographic film critic Jim Holliday has described this film as "easily the best and most accurate of several films based on the life and adventures of legendary Viennese madam Josephine Mutzenbacher" and his "all time foreign favorite" adult film.[4] Sensational Janine was "one of the most successful foreign x-rated films ever to cross the Atlantic."[5] The movie is "today seen as one of the best porns of all time",[1] as well as "possibly the best German pornographic film."[2]
References
- ^ a b "Heidi, das Luder von der Alm". 22 May 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ a b "JOSEFINE MUTZENBACHER ...WIE SIE WIRKLICH WAR - Teil 1". Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ "Josefine Mutzenbacher ... wie sie wirklich war 1. Teil". Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Jim Holliday (1986). Only the Best: Jim Holliday's Adult Video Almanac and Trivia Treasury. Cal Vista Direct. p. 84. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ The Film Journal. Pubsun Corporation. January 1984. p. 26. Retrieved 20 August 2013.