Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Sechs Schwedinnen im Pensionat" or "Six Swedes on a Campus" is a Swiss / French co-production from 1979, but the Swiss factor is dominant here with writer and director Erwin C. Dietrich. He is known for his trashy sex comedies from around that era and there are even more films about these Swedish girls in other locations. Then again, it is all relative and not to be seen too seriously as most of the action in this 90-minute film is outside in the nature and not really on campus. One of the lead actresses here is Brigitte Lahaie and she played in many of these films back then. I personally must say this was a pretty bad watch. The actors and actresses were abysmal and the script was so bad that it was almost non-existent. No plot whatsoever, just random stupid scenes that result in sex most of the time. I have zero interest to check out any of the other Swedes films after what I saw here. I am also fairly certain, it is all interchangeable probably and I'd be shocked if the other ones were better. Is there anything good in here? I cannot come up with a single aspect. The girls weren't even hot, so this is also not a good watch if you are in the mood for some porn. Failure all around. Don't watch.
Dries Vermeulen
The first and best of Swiss Czar of Carnality Erwin C. Dietrich's increasingly explicit "Swedish" skin flicks, a domestically popular porn series which was eventually to comprise four official entries, five if you count his acquisition of Ann Perry's all star US hardcore BALLGAME as "6 Swedish Girls Behind Bars" ! Funny thing about Dietrich. While trash film fans have accorded him a certain degree of street cred as producer of a number of Jess Franco's (comparatively) classier '70s skin flicks like JACK THE RIPPER and LOVE LETTERS OF A Portuguese NUN, there has always been considerably less love for the dozens of mostly generic gash grinders he churned out - usually as "Michael Thomas" - between 1968's costume pic DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST (remade more graphically in 1980) and 1982's AMOROUS SISTERS. Stopping just short of hardcore, for which he would press Continental pornographer Gérard Loubeau into duty as the German movie market grew more permissive, he adopted the gourmand's approach to his own personal brand of sex cinema which was almost entirely devoid of genuine eroticism but for its acres and acres of bared female skin.Apart from an occasionally semi-serious foray into the fornication film field, such as the Lina Romay showcase ROLLS ROYCE BABY or his half-hearted WIP entry CAGED WOMEN, Dietrich usually went for the funny bone. Historically proved, this is not a territory that German-speaking countries excel at ! So if you're looking for a few hearty laughs along with your copious nudity, you should probably just keep on looking. That said, the guy's unpretentious undraped sagas make for surprisingly innocent entertainment in retrospect, all the more astonishing considering that far more explicit endeavors must have been breathing down Dietrich's neck while he was still reeling in (massive) audiences with what were basically "nudie cuties" with tons of healthy outdoors activities for his foxy female cast to engage in. Which brings us to these movies' strongest assets (ass-sets ?), i.e. their stunningly beautiful actresses, frequently culled from the French XXX field, for whom these mild activities amidst the Alps must have been a literal breath of fresh air.We might just as well skim over any perceived complexities in the film's fragmented narrative (credited to Dietrich's nom de plume "Manfred Gregor"), as it basically consists of the Swedish sextet getting into mischief and - to quote the late great Kenny Everett - "all their clothes fall off", and focus on the fabulous femmes. Brigitte Lahaie is obviously the most recognizable of the lot and has her most memorable moment as she visits a local sex shop in search of a dozen dildo's (don't ask !) and starts to fantasize about what the exclusively male clientèle might do to her. Her close to 'core Sapphic scene with short-haired France Lomay (who would never look better than in her single American adult film, Fred Lincoln's 1983 THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS!) is also nothing to sneeze at. The latter figures most prominently in the plot (such as it is) by inventing a most unusual bicycle equipped with pistoning penis that will be put to extensive employment by the tireless schoolgirls ! Nearing the end of a distinguished career in simulated sexing, Anne Libert looks almost anorexic as the not so stern headmistress, still able to "bring it" as she gives a fully clothed demonstration of sexual positions with muscle man gym teacher Mike Montana (from Franco's SEXY SISTERS) in sex ed class that ranks as one of the few encounters to actually raise temperatures. Busty Nadine Pascal was usually "Nadja Santos" or "Nadine Scant" on penetration pics but is better known for Franco's SADOMANIA and TWO FEMALE SPIES WITH FLOWERED PANTIES. Long-haired blonde Danielle Troger probably looks the most convincingly Scandinavian of the lot and was also an extremely active adult starlet throughout the '70s but little Elsa Maroussia (as reluctant virgin Selma) only went all the way once, in Claude Bernard-Aubert's blah BIG ORGY.Photographic duties are divided between stalwart Andreas Demmer and his apprentice Rudi Küttel, who had done such a splendid job on Franco's Kitsch masterpiece BLUE RITA, with the first focusing more on the splendiferous surroundings while the latter would fearlessly probe the female private parts. As ever, Walter Baumgartner came on board for another perfectly pleasant and quite eclectic soundtrack to score the saucy shenanigans. What one must not forget is that Dietrich wasn't trying to beat the Bard with this undemanding bit o'froth. It used to play my local (long-gone) sex cinema semi-annually, almost always to packed houses, and no one ever asked for a refund ! Simply put, it does what it says on the tin, prime meat 'n potatoes porn that doesn't aspire to anything higher.
morrison-dylan-fan
Hearing from a friend about a big sub-genre in the 60's-70's of German cinema called Sex Comedy,I decided to search around for a suitable title,that would give me the chance to see the sub-genre that mixed the naughty with the weird and funny.The plot:Getting sent to a boarding school to be properly taught,a group of girls start to tire of their PE teacher and headmistress always telling them what to do.Keen on shaking the school's foundation permanently up,the girls start to explore and meet the residents of the near by town,who help them to get ideas on how to make the school time table much more interesting
View on the film:Seeing that the movie had a 90 minute running time,I began to fear that the film might run out of steam in the first 30 minutes,and end up becoming a dull,plodding affair.Thankfully,writer/director Erwin C. Dietrich evenly spreads enough quirky,humorous moments that allow the movie to move at an enjoyably pleasant pace.Openly celebrating the movie's ridiculousness right from the start, (from only a few of the girls being Swedish,to all of the Germen men being dubbed by guys with strong British accents!) Dietrich jumps headfirst into terrific silliness by making the girls out of school trips be ones where they create a bicycle that is defiantly not built for two,and have fun messing around with a pepping tom!.Along with showing the beautiful women (who give great,naturally cheerful performances) in the film, (led by a stunning Brigitte Lahaie) at their absolute best,Dietrich also shows an unexpected Gothic side to his directing,with a scene of some girls playing around with a pepping tom,having a suggested rough edge to it,and also filling the soundtrack with lonely bird sounds which help to develop a feeling the due to how much fun they are having,this is a school that none of the girls want to leave.
geffers
Although Six Swedes on a Campus and Amorous Sisters seem to have most of the same cast & director, not to mention basic premise, they are different in content. Amorous Sisters is much shorter (about 65 mines), but contains slightly stronger material, and Six Swedes on a campus seems to be better made, and more of a full-length movie. In 6 Swedes, the girls mess around with the rather camp muscle-bound PE teacher outdoors, whereas in Amorous Sisters, he's pounced upon inside.Perhaps there was originally one big movie, and was then made into little ones. I'd say 6 swedes was the better one, because the film quality is higher. Don't bother with 6 Swedes in Ibiza by the way, it's rubbish: 6 Swedes at the pump is OKish, but beware of the 6 Swedes at the Alps - the version I had which is supposedly uncut is very tame.