sloth unleashed

[…] a lost treasure of sexually uninhibited filmmaking. Yugoslavian beauty Ita Rina stars as Andrea, a trusting country girl who blossoms (and then some) under the touch of worldly visitor Olaf Fjord. After he abandons her, Rina endures single motherhood and marriage to another man, all the while nursing an overwhelming passion for her first lover. An assistant to both Griffith and von Stroheim in the early 1920’s, Machaty is best known for his 1933 film Ecstacy, featuring a pre-Hollywood Hedy Lamarr. Erotikon reveals him as a tremendously fluid filmmaker, using a handheld camera in one scene to capture the wild, dizzying joy of a young woman’s first sexual experience.

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