I mavri Emmanouella (1979)

Director:

Ilias Mylonakos

Writer:

Ilias Mylonakos (writer)

Release Date:

1980 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Plot Keywords:

Labia | Rape | Cunnilingus | Sexual Desire | Nipples Visible Through Clothing

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Emmanuella Brindisi
Gabriele Tinti	...	Tommy Snow
Livia Russo	...	Livia Brindisi
Haris Tryfonas	...	Mario Infanti (as Harris Stevens)
Nadia Neri	...	Ilona
Gordon Mitchell	...	Robert
Pantelis Agelopou	...	Victor Brindisi
Vagelis Vartan	...	Mike
Elli Kiriakidou
George Zenios
Tarita
Kathrin Maalouf
Anda Vartholomeou		(as Ada Bartolomeou)
Helen Danezi

Also Known As:

Black Emmanouella (Greece) (literal English title)
Emanuelle the Seductress (USA) (censored version)
Emanuelle's Daughter (International: English title)
Emanuelle's Sweet Revenge (UK) (DVD title)
Emanuelle: Queen Bitch (UK)
Emanuelle: Queen of Sados (International: English title)
Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados (UK) (video box title)
I Emmanouella sto nisi tis Afroditis (Greece)

Runtime:

91 min | UK:78 min | South Korea:76 min | Germany:83 min

Country:

Greece | Cyprus

Language:

Greek | Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 (cut) | Italy:VM18 (original rating) | USA:X | UK:X | USA:X (self applied)

Filming Locations:

Amathus Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus

Company:

Andromeda International Films

Trivia:

This is one of several films made to cash in on the success of the Black Emanuelle film series created by Bitto Albertini and continued by Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei. Though the film stars Laura Gemser (the star of the Black Emanuelle series) and she plays a character named Emanuelle (Emmanouella), it has nothing to do with the photojournalist character Emanuelle from the original series.

Goofs:

Continuity: Throughout the film, the depth of Mario's tan, as well as the length of his hair changes considerably back and forth.

Emmanuelle, the Queen

The "Black Emanuelle" series went from pointless erotica ("Black Emanuelle") to the most crass and tasteless Italian exploitation ("Emanuelle in America")without ever actually achieving any drama or a real plot. This is about the closest the series ever came to a real movie. Gemser has a meatier-than-usual role as a trophy wife who has knocked off her rich, jaded husband, but is being blackmailed by the sleazy character she hired to do it. She falls in love with her late husband's industrialist partner (played by Gemser's real husband Gabrielle Tinti), and for some reason keeps around her husband's busty mistress, who had helped him sexually torture her and who begins plotting with the blackmailer against her. On the other, she seems genuinely devoted to her husband's teenage daughter, Livia (thus this movie was alternately called "Emmanuelle's Daughter" to capture the lucrative pervert market). The blackmailer, a sleazy looking Greek guy who always has a rose between teeth, makes his way sexually through the entire female cast, but isn't necessarily a very intimidating villain.

The ending of this movie is abrupt and incredibly stupid, but up until then there is some genuine dramatic tension, making this slightly more interesting than the typical Emanuelle flick. It's not nearly as transgressive and disturbing as some of the Joe D'Amato Emanuelle films (although the Italian sleazemeister was peripherally involved in this on the production end). There is one unpleasantly graphic, but not entirely gratuitous, rape scene involving an actress of an indeterminate, but probably pretty young, age--but no "snuff film" footage, equine masturbation, or cannibalism here.

Gemser, on the other hand, looks great and really gets a chance to act for change. Definitely recommended for Gemser/Emanuelle fans. As for everyone else. . .well, why are you reading this anyway?