L'insegnante va in collegio (1978)

Director:

Mariano Laurenti

Writers:

Francesco Milizia (writer) &
Franco Mercuri (writer) ...

Release Date:

1 March 1978 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire for the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only 1 student gets the opportunity. |

Plot Keywords:

Teacher | Sex Comedy | School | Italian Sex Comedy | Sex

Cast

Edwige Fenech	...	Monica Sebastiani
Renzo Montagnani	...	Riccardo Bolzoni
Alvaro Vitali	...	Armandino Fusecchia
Leo Colonna	...	Carlo Bolzoni
Nikki Gentile	...	Vera
Carlo Sposito	...	Professor Morlupo
Dino Emanuelli	...	Don Marcello
Paola Pieracci	...	Ileana Bolzoni
Jacques Stany	...	Nicola
Graziella Polesinanti
Dante Cleri	...	Celestino
Jimmy il Fenomeno	...	Bidello della scuola (as Jimmy Fenomeno)
Lucio Montanaro	...	Studente bravo in Inglese
Lino Banfi	...	Peppino
Gianfranco D'Angelo	...	Professor Strumolo

Also Known As:

La prof et les cancres (France)

Runtime:

Germany:90 min | France:86 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Italy:VM14 | Spain:13 | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Devon Film

Trivia:

Italian censorship visa # 71577 delivered on 24-2-1978.

Movie Connections:

Followed by L'insegnante viene a casa (1978)

Even Edwige Fenech (and her breasts) can't salvage this

The blurb on the back of the recent DVD claims that these "scholastic" Italian sex comedies were forerunners of the American teen comedies of the 80's. While anticipating such 80's teen classics as "Private Lessons", "My Tutor", and "They're Playing with Fire" isn't necessarily something to brag about, this is not really true anyway. Aside from being set ostensibly in high schools, these films are nothing like their American cousins (for instance, the "students" are about thirty years old on average and far more interested in pulling juvenile pranks than losing their virginity). They are actually pretty typical of 70's Italian sex comedies in general, and pretty much the bottom of the barrel of that particular genre (which was never too far from the bottom of the barrel itself).

These "scholastic" sex comedies (for lack of a better term) consisted mainly of two series--the "Insegnante" series where Edwige Fenech plays a sexy teacher who drives men of all ages crazy with lust, and the "Liceale" series where Gloria Guida plays a sexy student who does pretty much the same. The two actresses were actually little more than five years apart in age, but it's all relative really since they're BOTH obviously younger than most of the male "students" in these flicks. Strangely, while both of these series shared common directors (i.e. Mariano Laurenti, Massimo Tarantini) and comic male actors (i.e. Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali), the "Insegnante" (Fenech) never did meet the "Liceale" (Guida) on screen. This is unfortunate because the woman are BY FAR the best thing in any of these movies.

The plot of this particular one involves a wealthy industrialist (Renzo Montagnini) and his assistant (Lino Banfi) who are hiding out from kidnappers in a provincial Italian town. The industrialist hires the new local school teacher to give him foreign language lessons (for reasons that eluded me). Meanwhile, the industrialist's son and his fellow male students (including Alvaro Vitali, once again playing the world's oldest teenager) plot to get into their sexy teacher's panties. Fenech has only a couple of nude scenes (the best is a fantasy sequence where she strips for her class). She really is one of the sexiest women in the history of cinema (the DVD blurb is right about something at least), but frankly she's had a lot more nude scenes in A LOT better movies. And even if Fenech and Guida had ever appeared together in any of these movies, it still probably wouldn't have salvaged the stupid plots and painfully unfunny comedy. Fenech, by herself, certainly doesn't manage it here.