Ein echter Hausfrauenfreund (1975)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Kurt Nachmann

Writer:

Kurt Nachmann (writer)

Release Date:

30 June 1980 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Albert has the enviable job of being employed by a plush hotel to cater to the female visitors. His...

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Grindhouse | Black Panties | Panties | Cult Favorite

Cast

Peter Hamm	...	Albert Hoover
Margaret Rose Keil	...	Evelyn
Gisela Krauss	...	Doctor
Eva Gross	...	Louise
Ljuba Welitsch	...	Hotel Manager
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Puppa Armbruster	...	Astrid
Elfriede Gerstl	...	Püppi
Roswitha Geuther	...	Maid
Hasso Preiß	...	Graf Terazzi-Felsberg
Michaela Roos	...	Heather
Ernst Soelden	...	Priest
Gerry Thiele	...	Porter

Also Known As:

A Happy Gigolo: A Man for All Reasons
Der Prostitut - Ein echter Hausfreund (West Germany) (working title)
Er war besonders wertvoll für die Damen - Ein echter Hausfrauenfreund (West Germany) (long title)
Feuchte Träume, heiße Betten (West Germany)
Happy Gigolo
House of 1000 Sins (USA) (video title)
Passion Hotel (UK) (video title)
The Genuine Housewife Friend (Europe: English title)

Runtime:

West Germany:78 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Certification:

West Germany:18 (Spio-Kommission-X) | Finland:K-18

Company:

CTV 72 Film und Fernsehproduktion GmbH

Quotes:

The Lord: I feel just as horny as a Brahms symphony!

The inequality of the sexes is preserved

This film about a male prostitute called Albert (played by Peter Hamm) is not a nitty-gritty fetch-the-hypodermic-needle-out-of-the-s****y drama. Instead, it is one of those German sex comedies from the mid-70s. In other words, this is exploitation cinema of the silly kind: the target audience is male and the main selling point are beautiful women (who else would require the services of a male prostitute?) in the nude experiencing the rumpy-pumpy. Director Nachmann put in a real effort making the sex scenes more inventive and interesting, presumably helped by the relaxed censorship constraints of 1975. The comedy elements also work a little better than in the average genre flick, and they might have worked even better still had anybody bothered to tell Margaret Rose Keil that this film was supposed to be a comedy.

Especially noteworthy are some quirky scenes (mostly towards the beginning) in which our Albert is clearly at the receiving end of sexism. That is done very nicely. Sadly, the makers felt compelled to balance these scenes by giving the film a male-triumphant ending. In other words: the inequality of the sexes is preserved, but the chance to make a better film was missed.

Although the Italian title of this movie really is "Marito tutto fare" I should warn that the video distributed by Tabu Video in Italy under this name has taken the credits from this film and then combined them with a very different movie, i.e. "Kasimir, der Kuckuckskleber". The attached booklet suggests that Tabu Video were themselves deceived, because they seem to believe that Peter Hamm played the role of Kasimir.