Legendary erotic film from Czechoslovakia seems more like a soap opera. Farmer girl sleeps with city slicker, city slicker gets her pregnant, farmer girl meets rich guy and marries him instead city slicker shows up and farmer girl almost screws up her marriage to rich guy by getting involved once again with the city slicker. All My Children meets Closely Watched Trains as it were.
The film is basically remembered for one erotic scene at the beginning that involves the woman withering back and forth in supposed ecstasy with alternating shots of the camera rocking back and forth, pretty corny stuff these days.
The rest of the film is yet another trite love triangle story. But I suppose there are only so many ways to tell this kind of story. The director uses a lot of closeups and throws in some arty shots of dripping water and speeding trains symbolizing god knows what.
The two things I came away with from this film are that the actor Ita Rina, looks pretty good especially when they film her in closeup and that guys sure used a lot of hair care product back in the 20's. They must have left grease spots on their high backed chairs wherever they sat down.
85 minutes.
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