BEAUTIFUL AND WILD OF IBIZA (1980) Siggi Gotz 'Free and Wild'
3849DVD
Light,
Breezy and Recklessly Hedonistic
One of the Best Euro 'Summer' Sex Films
Original German
Title: DIE SCHONEN WILDEN VON IBIZA [The Beautiful and Wild of
Ibiza]
also known as WILD AND FREE
director: Sigi Rothmund
(as Siggi Gotz)
starring: Regis Porte · Tanja Spiess · Michael Gspanol
· Margit Geissler · Beate Granitz · Heidi Strom
The cinematic
landscape is littered with an astronomical number of free-wheeling 'summer'
sex films that failed to deliver. So-much-so that it's actually quite
remarkable when one really works. However, this is such a movie.
An infectious charm - derived from (goofy) music, quirky characters and
exaggerated melodrama - accentuates the recklessly hedonistic 70's party
scene. Director Rothmund has learned his craft well, seemingly after studying
Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The two films
are purposely very similar.
The plot deals with numerous things at the same time (motorcycle babes,
scam artists, beach bunnies, wild discos, a transvestite, dashed dreams,
cultural taboos, gay rights, sexual freedom and a non-ending villa houseparty)
but all the tangents are tied together in the story of newlyweds Michael
and Susi who find utter disaster upon their arrival in Ibiza, off the
coast of Spain. They have no place to stay when the hotel loses their
reservations, their luggage and money are stolen by a band of crooks and
wife Susi decides to seek help from an ex-boyfriend. Michael becomes disenchanted
and gives in to the temptations around him. He befriends a female motorcycle
gang who introduce him to a forbidden side of Ibiza.
Nadja,
one of the female
bikers, is played by Margit Geissler. She was a popular German actress
who began her career as Margit Man in the film HIGH
SEASON the previous year. Ms Geissler was also married to director
Sigi Rothmund. After 30+ films, she died from lung cancer at age 57, February
2016.
A German
film with English subtitles; widescreen format, uncut (85 minutes)
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC FORMAT
Sexual
Situations/Male and Female Nudity/Homosexual Themes/Violence
for Adult Audiences
