Emanuelle nera (1975)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Bitto Albertini

Writers:

Bitto Albertini (writer)
Ambrogio Molteni (writer)

Release Date:

October 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A new experience in sensuality.

Plot:

In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment...

Plot Keywords:

Africa | Female Full Frontal Nudity | Photography | Pretty Woman | Sexual Attraction

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Mae Jordan / Emanuelle
Karin Schubert	...	Ann Danieli
Angelo Infanti	...	Gianni Danieli
Isabelle Marchall	...	Gloria Clifton
Gabriele Tinti	...	Richard Clifton
Don Powell	...	Professor Kamau
Venantino Venantini	...	William Meredith

Also Known As:

Black Emanuelle
Emanuelle negra (Spain)
Emmanuelle in Africa
Emmanuelle's Holiday (USA) (cable TV title)

Runtime:

Germany:94 min | Italy:91 min

Country:

Spain | Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | France:-16 | Finland:K-18 | UK:18 | USA:X | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Amboseli Lodge, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Company:

Emaus Films S.A.

Trivia:

On original advertising art as well as on original prints of the film, Laura Gemser is credited simply as "Emanuelle," rather than by her own name.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: There are obvious body doubles during the hardcore scenes.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Who Killed 'Winter Kills'? (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Black Emanuelle

Sex on the Serengeti as amorous Asian actress arouses Africa!

Would it be splitting hairs to point out that the Emanuelle in question is not "black" but Indonesian? I suppose it's no more silly or abstract than LL Cool J being Robin Williams' full-blood brother ("Toys"). Sumptuous cinematography, creative carnality, and the gorgeous (Laura) Gemser, pre-empt all political incorrectness. Pedophiliac permutations "pop up" (when a 12-year-old native boy eagerly presents Emanuelle with a phallic "good luck" icon and says "I give it to you!") and are "purged" and pacified when, a short time later, she drinks a strange potion at a ceremony, copulates on the ground with an anonymous, young tribal dancer (in full view of villagers and friends), and realizes she has had meaningless sex (well, duh!). Whatever happened to Laura Gemser's brief foray into straight cinema when she starred with Michael Landon in a 1983 made-for-tv movie? I give this sex-seared safari seven sharp spears, six shrunken skulls, five fat ferrets, and a porn queen in a pear tree!