Italian sex comedy with Lando Buzzanca and Pamela Tiffin
Unfortunately, this wonderfully over-the-top Italo fun never made it to the cinema in West Germany. The film, directed by Steno (director of the Flatfoot films with Bud Spencer), premiered on August 12, 1971 in Italy. In the English-speaking world it is also known as "The Blonde in the Blue Movie".
The busy Sicilian Rosario Trapanese (Lando Buzzanca) has managed to achieve something of a career in his Milan company. He enjoys life with his attractive lover Priscilla (Dominique Boschero), but is happy when his boss (Gigi Ballista) transfers him to the company branch in Copenhagen. In those days, Denmark is the center of sexual permissiveness, as recently the Danish government (the first country in the world) had legalized adult entertainment films. Rosario, who doesn't feel fully sexually exhausted, now hopes to get his money's worth in love matters in a more permissive country than his native Italy. After getting to know his new colleagues for the first time, he jumps into the fray. At a party held by his employee Gustav Larsen (Renzo Marignano, also known as the cigar-smoking lawyer in "Charleston" (1977), who waits stupidly in the office while Bud Spencer calmly beats up the gang boss's henchmen) it comes to fruition by means of spin the bottle partner swapping that has just become fashionable. How good that the cozy living room is adjacent to four bedrooms! But since the good Mrs. Larsen has already had a good drink, the sexually starved Rosario remains uncared for for the time being. But even in the subsequent game of changing trees, the hot-blooded Sicilian repeatedly misses the doors that open and close again. It's great fun to watch the honest Danes work their way from one bedroom to the other while the hormone-stricken southerner comes away empty-handed.
But the next opportunity will definitely come. At a business meeting in a chic Copenhagen department store, Rosario meets and falls in love with the beautiful Danish woman Karen (Pamela Tiffin), who is studying with the respected Professor Grutekoor (Ferdy Mayne). After some Danish-Italian mentality differences and misunderstandings, the two get married, but this soon leads to marital tensions due to their different temperaments. On a business trip to his native Milan, the good Rosario of course has a souvenir from beautiful Denmark with him for those at home from the executive suite: an adult entertainment film, which of course they watch together at the party.
But then Rosario experiences a big surprise. In addition to Carl Gunner (Kjeld Norgaard), a stalwart pioneer of Danish adult entertainment, his wife Karen is actually the absolute star of the film. Completely overwhelmed by so much free spirit, Rosario indignantly confronts his wife, who then confesses to him that she has now signed a contract for another film with producer Bosen (Steffen Zacharias). In order to avoid the impending contractual penalty, the reconciled couple now urgently has to come up with something...
A wonderfully silly film that lets different worlds collide. Not just Southern Europe vs. Northern Europe, but also the challenge of aging machismo through relaxed sexual morals. The shots of Copenhagen, shown at its most beautiful, are absolutely wonderful. The wonderful Seventies clothes and the interior design known from that era are also very beautiful.
The interaction between the stars also works very well. As always, Lando Buzzanca (born in Palermo in 1935) plays the lumbar-controlled picture-perfect Italian, whose over-the-top nature gets him from one crazy situation to the next. There is a great reunion with the enchanting Pamela Tiffin (1942-2020), who is best known in this country from the Billy Wilder classic "One, Two, Three", where she played the hopelessly spoiled Coca-Cola Princess Scarlett Piffl in East Berlin, of all people, she lands a staunch parade communist (Horst Buchholz) as a husband. In this film, made ten years later, she impresses as a model Dane who, with her open-hearted and at the same time ladylike manner, wraps her Sicilian rooster around her finger.
