Komm, liebe Maid und mache (1969)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Jozef Zachar

Writers:

Alfredo Medori (dialogue)
Kurt Nachmann (writer)

Release Date:

15 July 1970 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Lesbian Scene | Adultery | Virginity | Voyeur

Cast

Sieghardt Rupp	...	Georg
Michaela May	...	Comtesse Annette
Angelica Ott	...	Sophie
Gustav Knuth	...	Bürgermeister
Edwige Fenech	...	Felicitas
Walter Buschhoff	...	Phileas Leuwenstam
Caterina Alt	...	Arabella (as Katharina Alt)
Francy Fair	...	Eugenie
Sissy Löwinger	...	Therese, Magd
Ivan Nesbitt	...	Manuel da Silva
Mathilde Schmid
Ralf Wolter	...	Toni
Joachim Hansen	...	Fabian von Weyden
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Christine Schuberth	...	Dienstmädchen (uncredited)

Directed by
Jozef Zachar

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Alfredo Medori		dialogue
Kurt Nachmann		writer

Produced by
Erich Tomek	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Claudius Alzner
Gerhard Heinz

Cinematography by
Kurt Junek

Film Editing by
Traude Krappl-Maass		(as Traude Krappl)

Production Design by
Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff

Costume Design by
Lambert Hofer Jr.

Makeup Department
Mathilde Böhacker	....	makeup artist
Waltraud Eder	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Claudio Schreiber	....	assistant director

Camera and Electrical Department
Christian Meshy	....	gaffer
Karl Reiter	....	still photographer
Hans Günther Sochatzy	....	assistant camera (as Gunther Sochatzy)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Berly Fless	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Ullrike Steinbach	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Margit Reich	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Gloria Film
• Lisa-Film

Distributors

• Cinépix Film Properties (CFP) (1972) (Canada) (theatrical) (dubbed) (as "The Brazen Women of Balzac")
• TV.München (1969) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Globe (1971) (USA) (dubbed)
• Something Weird Video (SWV)

Other Companies

• Doppiaggio Internazionale  sync effects
• Westrex Recording System  sync effects

Also Known As:

Die tolldreisten Geschichten nach Honoré de Balzac
Sex Is a Pleasure (UK)
The Brazen Women of Balzac (USA)
Tolldreiste Geschichten (West Germany) (video title)

Runtime:

USA:80 min | France:90 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | USA:X (self applied)

Company:

Gloria Film

Movie Connections:

Featured in Twisted Sex Vol. 20 (1999) (V)

Balzac, wine and a twenty year old Edwige

Of the many phases that Edwige Fenech's career has gone through (costume sex capers, Giallo, seventies sex comedy, TV show host and producer), this German/Italian co production fits in the first category. A Count and Countess who's love life has lost most of it's luster are having some guests over to stay. Countess Angini has become obsessed with the writing of Balzac and as her husband Ridaldo fails to grasp it, can only share this obsession with best friend Isabella. Ridaldo's teenage niece Annette is also looking forward to the male guests arriving, and all three women are quite fond of Georg (Sieghardt Rupp) the stable boy (stable man, actually), as they try out a new fad: riding trousers for women.

The final couple to arrive are Felicitas (Fenech) and Emmanuel (Walter Buschhoff). She has grown tired of his philandering, especially when he starts using his considerable charms on Isabella. Just then, Isabella's older husband (a German version of Fernando Rey) unexpectedly arrives (after the entire household has already retired to bed) to stir things up some more. Edwige, who is also quite captivated by her new pair of stretch pants, makes good use of the situation by telling old Fernando about the nude sunbathing expedition the ladies are planned for the next day. This leads to several peeping toms, a stolen horse and prolonged slow motion shots of no less than four lady Godiva's.

Meanwhile, Ridaldo has secretly been reading up on Balzac and asks the ever present Bürgermeister to help him organize a festival in the basement of his castle to celebrate the new wine year. This spectacular feast involves lots of decorations, music, clapping and a masked, but otherwise nude dancer presenting this years potent potable. During the celebrations the guests sneak off one by one to find a new partner of their choosing, all in the spirit of Balzac, of course. To reveal who ends up with whom would be spoiling, as would to say whom was hidden behind the dancer's golden mask, but sufficed to say that when the celebrations have died down, everyone has found love and happiness and the count and countess have renewed their vows for one another.

8 out of 10