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Schamlos

  • 1968
  • 1h 14m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
137
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Schamlos (1968)
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A debt collecting teenage gangster falls in love with an exotic dancer and seeks revenge after she's murdered.A debt collecting teenage gangster falls in love with an exotic dancer and seeks revenge after she's murdered.A debt collecting teenage gangster falls in love with an exotic dancer and seeks revenge after she's murdered.

  • Director
    • Eddy Saller
  • Writers
    • Karl Hans Koizar
    • E. Neumayr
    • Theodor Ottawa
  • Stars
    • Thomas Astor
    • Gino Baldini
    • Rolf Eden
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    137
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Eddy Saller
    • Writers
      • Karl Hans Koizar
      • E. Neumayr
      • Theodor Ottawa
    • Stars
      • Thomas Astor
      • Gino Baldini
      • Rolf Eden
    • 3User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Thomas Astor
    • Johnny
    Gino Baldini
    • Keith
    Rolf Eden
    • Richard Kowalski
    Herbert Kersten
    • Dr. Fuhrmann
    Udo Kier
    Udo Kier
    • Alexander Pohlmann
    Vladimir Medar
    Vladimir Medar
    • Guido Romanelli
    Marina Paal
    • Annabella
    Joe Palt
    Rudi Schippel
    Louis Soldan
    • Michael Hohenberg
    Inge Toifl
    • Katja
    Edgar Wenzel
    • Frankie
    Otto Muehl
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    • Director
      • Eddy Saller
    • Writers
      • Karl Hans Koizar
      • E. Neumayr
      • Theodor Ottawa
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    1bruno04

    Irrelevant Amateurism

    Yes, this is a terrible movie.

    Is it so terrible that it could be looked upon as great?

    I contemplated on that.

    But I would say no. It is just a terrible movie. Terrible directing, terrible script, terrible acting, terrible... well, terrible anything.

    Trying to make an Austrian exploitation movie was a very good idea. And if I'm not wrong Eddy Saller's "Geissel des Fleisches" starring the unforgettable Herbert Fux was interesting. Or at least that's what my memory tells me.

    But "Schamlos" is just bad. Meaning that the filmmakers were not able to produce anything that strikes you visually. So this movie is not about exploitation. It is about the lack of talent to create exploitation.

    And that is why this movie is so disappointing. It seems as if complete amateurs tried to make a feature film. I like trash and exploitation movies.

    But, please, go for Italian, French, British or German trash films. And don't bother yourself by wasting time on watching this example of irrelevant amateurism.

    Because quite obviously the Austrian wannabee trash director didn't even try to produce an Austrian trash movie. Otherwise Vienna or any other Austrian city should have been the setting. No, what you see are Viennese streets, but the movie pretends to take place somewhere in Germany.

    Ridiculous. At the best.
    7ruediger_vienna

    the (almost) childless mother of Austrian B-Movies

    Schamlos (shameless) is an exceptional Austrian movie by an exceptional director. While Austrian movies in the 60s mainly were Heimatfilme - colorful pictures about the better days back in the monarchy - Saller did not care too much about this mainstream and started with b/w exploitation cinema. His first movie - "Geißel des Fleisches" - came as a shock to Austrians, his second movie "Schamlos" repeated that experience.

    A very dynamic Udo Kier stars as Pohlmann, a teenager setting up a gang to collect protection money, who falls in love with an exotic dancer, who gets murdered. Can Pohlmann revenge her? Pohlmann investigates in caravans, used as mobile whorehouses, threatens everybody he meets with violence - all in all, he behaves like bad guys should behave - especially if you take the German TV series "Der Komissar" as a pattern (which started 2 years later).

    The score unbelievable - especially the main theme played during the scenes in the "beatschuppen" (mixture between speakeasy and disco).

    All in all a really entertaining movie - and don't forget: you can always tell people that you just watch it for historical research...

    "Schamlos" is now released on DVD in an edition by Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" for the first time ever - audio is only available in German.

    7 out of 10
    Cows_at_home

    Mix of German and Austrian

    I am not sure about the filming location of this movie. The story seems to be set in Frankfurt/Germany. The cars have German number plates with "F"s. On the other hand I think I recognized some Viennese streets. I am sure that the Philips building which can be seen @ 0:20:21 is the Viennese head quarters of Philips (Wien Favoriten, Triesterstrasse 64). One of the characters (the assistant of Richard Kowalski) pretends to speak a Viennese dialect, the way it is imagined by Germans ... very funny!

    All in all the movie captures the atmosphere of the late 60s in Vienna quite nicely.

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    • Release date
      • November 1968 (Austria)
    • Countries of origin
      • Austria
      • West Germany
      • France
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Shameless
    • Filming locations
      • Vienna, Austria
    • Production companies
      • Commerz Film
      • Donau-Filmgesellschaft
      • Smidell-Film
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 14 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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