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The Ideal Marriage

Original title: Van de Velde: Die vollkommene Ehe
  • 19681968
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  • 1h 29m
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4.3/10
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Ingrid Back and Frank Nossack in The Ideal Marriage (1968)
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The 1st of 2 Franz Josef Gottlieb films supposedly based on the works of Dutch gynecologist Van de Velde. A precursor to the more popular Schoolgirl Report pseudo-documentaries the Gottlieb ... Read allThe 1st of 2 Franz Josef Gottlieb films supposedly based on the works of Dutch gynecologist Van de Velde. A precursor to the more popular Schoolgirl Report pseudo-documentaries the Gottlieb "Van de Velde" films tried to take a scientific approach to various sexual discoveries wit... Read allThe 1st of 2 Franz Josef Gottlieb films supposedly based on the works of Dutch gynecologist Van de Velde. A precursor to the more popular Schoolgirl Report pseudo-documentaries the Gottlieb "Van de Velde" films tried to take a scientific approach to various sexual discoveries within relationships. Taking the documentary route would allow Gottlieb (and other director's... Read all
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    • Franz Josef Gottlieb
    • Franz Seitz
    • Theodore H. Van de Velde(book "Die vollkommene Ehe")
  • Stars
    • Frank Nossack
    • Ingrid Back
    • Rainer Brandt
    • Franz Josef Gottlieb
    • Franz Seitz
    • Theodore H. Van de Velde(book "Die vollkommene Ehe")
  • Stars
    • Frank Nossack
    • Ingrid Back
    • Rainer Brandt
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    Frank Nossack
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    Ingrid Back
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    • Helga
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    Rainer Brandt
    • Martin Pechstein
    Ruth Eder
    • Erika Pechstein
    Harald Dietl
    • Heinz Schubert
    Biggi Freyer
    • Ursula Schubert
    Barbara Stanek
    Hans Krull
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    Simone Henning
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    Rainer Ilguth
    • Michael Bachmann
      • Franz Josef Gottlieb
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      • Theodore H. Van de Velde(book "Die vollkommene Ehe")
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      German censorship certificate # 39377 delivered on 23-7-1968.

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    Way too tame sex education film
    Though IMDb lists this in the "Adult" (hardcore sex) category, THE IDEAL MARRIAGE is at the R-rated level in its presentation of uninteresting case history-style material.

    The shill writing notes for Something Weird Video calls it a Dutch film, but it is German all the way -production, casting and dialog. Van de Velde of the title was a Dutch author, who penned the marriage manual in question back in 1926.

    We're shown a series of dumb vignettes, amounting in content to the format of the "Love American Style" series of a couple years later, but German. A U.S. professor serves as our white coat host.

    Perhaps the only odd element is a family taking their little kids to watch horses mating on a farm -they find this a natural process of maturation but I daresay it would still offend on American shores. Similarly, an eight year old girl bathing with her old daddy in the bathtub is another paean to "natural behavior", but in an acted context like this one it is again suspect.

    Some of the actresses are quite attractive, especially a busty girl who's frustrated because hubby only wants to watch TV. Overall this is dull soft porn pretending to be educational. The crude diagrams showing male and female private parts (external and internal) hardly constitute hardcore content by any definition.
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      • August 9, 1968 (West Germany)
      • West Germany
      • German
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      • Preben Philipsen & Co.
      • Rialto Film
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    • 1 hour 29 minutes
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