Sensational Janine

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Sensational Janine
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Directed by Hans Billian
Written byHans Billian
Based on Josephine Mutzenbacher
Produced byGunter Otto
Starring Patricia Rhomberg
CinematographyGunter Otto
Music byDave Apfelbaum
Distributed byHerzog Filme
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
94 minutes
Country West Germany
LanguageGerman

Sensational Janine (German : Josefine Mutzenbacher... wie sie wirklich war - 1. Teil  ['Josefine Mutzenbacher... as she really was - Part 1']) is a 1976 West German hardcore costume drama-sex comedy film directed by Hans Billian. The film is an adaptation of the anonymous early 20th century novel Josephine Mutzenbacher on the sexual awakening of the eponymous and fictional fin-de-siècle Viennese courtesan.

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Background

Sensational Janine was released in 1979 in the United States [1] [2] and features director Hans Billian's girlfriend Patricia Rhomberg in the lead role. [1] [2] [3] Sensational Janine became the first pornographic film to feature a humorous Viennese German, which contributed significantly to its popularity among the German-speaking audience. [4]

Synopsis

According to the 1982 book Adult Movies by Kent Smith, the film is based on the story of a turn-of-the-century woman, Josephine Mutzenbacher, "who became a famous London madam. The movie chronicles her life, from her first experience with eroticism to her eventual obsession with selling her body, and finally to the setting up of her own brothel." [1]

Legacy

American pornographic film director and critic Jim Holliday has described this film as his "all time foreign favorite" adult film. [5] According to The Film Journal , Sensational Janine was "one of the most successful foreign x-rated films ever to cross the Atlantic". [6] The website TV-Kult says the film is "now considered one of the best porn films of all time". [3] The website Pornoklassiker called it "possibly the best German pornographic film." [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Smith, Kent; Moore, Darrell W.; Reagle, Merl (1982). Adult Movies: Rating Hundreds of the Best Films for Home Video & Cable . New York: Beekman House; Distributed by Crown Publishers. p. 214. ISBN   978-0-517-39871-5.
  2. 1 2 Krull, Achim K.; Hendriks-Witmer, Eleanor; Shukyn, Murray (1985). Video Movies to Go: The Complete Video Movie Review Guide (2nd ed.). Toronto: Grosvenor House Press. p. 372. ISBN   978-0-919959-21-7.
  3. 1 2 Kuboth, Sebastian (22 May 2009). "Heidi, das Luder von der Alm" [Heidi, the babe from the mountain pasture]. TV-Kult (in German). Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Josefine Mutzenbacher ...Wie Sie Wirklich War - Teil 1" [Josefine Mutzenbacher ...as she really was – Part 1]. Pornoklassiker.de (in German). n.d. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Holliday, Jim (1986). Only the Best: Jim Holliday's Adult Video Almanac and Trivia Treasury. Van Nuys, Calif.: Cal Vista Direct. p. 84. LCCN   86223045. OCLC   15317190.
  6. ↑ The Film Journal. Vol. 87. p. 26. 1984. ISSN   0019-3712.{{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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