Die Sklavinnen - (Swedish Nympho Slaves).

There are two DVDs in this set, the first is Die Sklavinnen, a rather sleazy thriller directed by Jess Franco and starring Franco's favourite, Lina Romay. Told partly in flashback, Lina Romay plays Princess Arminda, a brothel keeper who, through friends in high places has escaped justice and continues to procure girls for her establishment by any means, fair or foul; this being a Franco-fest, it is mainly foul. This is just the excuse needed for showing lots of female flesh of varying colours and lots of erotic action from the very attractive female leads. To my mind though, Lina Romay looks too young to play the part of a brothel Madame and someone older would have been more appropriate. Never mind though, a naked Miss Romay is one of life's treats. This is actually quite a nifty little thriller at 73 minutes. There are enough twists and double crosses that more accomplished thriller writers would be proud of and the ending could be seen as quite a shock. The widescreen picture looks good. The language is German with optional English subtitles. There are no extras. The other DVD is The Amorous Sisters, written and directed by Erwin C. Dietrich. Rather like the Schoolgirl Report films of the same era, This is a more innocent and charming film set in a girls school in Switzerland but still featuring lots of nudity from the very beautitiful female students which includes porn star Brigitte Lahaie, and their equally attractive female teacher. One can only assume that this is supposed to be a finishing school for young ladies as all the students look older than teenagers, and the only subject on the timetable is sex education, which the girls study enthusiastically. Needless to say, this leads to much nudity, girl on girl action and boy/girl (man/woman?) action. There are some funny moments in this film and also a rather surreal scene in which the teacher and students run naked through the forest, shown in slow motion, to a haunting and romantic music track. Shot on location, some of the scenery is quite stunning. This widescreen film looks good and runs for 76 minutes. The audio is German and English with optional English subtitles. Trailers for similar films are the only extras. For me, an added bonus is that both films were shot on location. Die Sklavinnen was shot in and around Lisbon, Portugal. The Amorous Sisters was shot in various locations around Switzerland. Castle Widen, Ossingen, Canton Zurich looks to be the school; some scenes were shot in Zurich and the nature trek sequence was filmed in Val Verzasca, Canton Ticino (Lavertezzo was the Roman footbridge part).

The film is good,the packageing was good a good film for jess franco fans,with a bonus free dvd,very good overall

Franco appears as a slightly unconvincing heavy in this 1977 mid-career movie. He appears in many of his fims in roles which are much more than cameos. The listing gives little information, but the disc plays in German, with or without English subtitles at the viewer's choice, but that is the limit of the possibilities on this disc and the extras include an interview with the director and some pointless stills. The dialogue is reasonably effective and the print itself is of good quality.The movie's title is certainly Die Sklavinnen - there is nothing Swedish about it, and the German word merely means slave-girls, although there is only one girl in subjection in the movie; the immensely beautiful actress who plays her, Martine Stedil, makes a great success as a naked, captive madwoman; it is a portrayal which has a great deal of force about it. The plot is actually quite fast-paced and the sets and locations come out as the usual Franco hot-country thing with a vague feel of palm trees and bleached-white villas. Occasionally the location includes exotic and decaying architecture, adding atmosphere to what is already a fairly effective kidnapping-suspense story. Some film of rough seas breaking onto rocky cliffs adds variety although it is not clear how far away from the main action this location might be - that would be too much to ask. Viewers familiar with Franco's prolific directing career will already be expecting the cast to be discarding their clothing for much of the running time of the film. The fabulously puffy-portly Vitor Mendes, a Portuguese actor who perhaps unsurprisingly died in middle age, plays an ultimately heartless father of a daughter who, by her looks, can hardly share any of his genes. Franco's muse and of course his spouse, Lina Romay, in real life a homely and comfortable character, acts her socks off (pun by all means intended) demonically and effectively in this film and was something of a natural acting talent. The direction is quite tight and the musical score appropriate and effective. There are some truly awful 1970s' male hairdos, which are far more shocking than anything that actually happens in the plot.

'Swedish Nympho Slaves' is another of Jess Franco's trademark sexploitation efforts prominantly featuring his main squeeze Lina Romay. The cover art on the DVD case is a little deceptive as it depicts Ms Romay behind bars in a classic WIP pose when, in fact, she never is in prison in this flik. Rather, she plays the domineering owner of a sexy club on some un-named exotic island, that features a lot of strippers and prostitutes. The 'plot' revolves around a kidnap/ransom scenario involving the daughter of a fat millionaire who is trying to get his offspring back & he has found out that she was seen in Lina's establishment. The movie unfolds initally as a series of flashbacks that tell the back-story of how Romay's character met the millionaire's daughter, lured her into a lesbian relationship, then ultimately turned her into a 'sex slave' prostitute at her establishment. I think this may be where the 'Swedish Nympho' element comes into the title - the young girl 'looks' sorta Swedish (she's blonde!) altho there is never really any other reference to her nationality - in fact the actual translation of the film's Euro-title is simply "The Slave". When people realize that the young girl is 'valuable' she becomes a bit of a pawn in a struggle between a couple of rival crime syndicates to barter her off to her father, who is also using his 'resources' to track her down. While this all sounds pretty complex, Franco doesn't let the plot get in the way of providing as many sex scenes as he can squeeze in and there are numerous varied sexual scenarios presented featuring women of many different colors and sexual preferences. Per usual, Franco manages to throw in a little S&M via some 'interrogation' scenes and there's plenty of full female nudity & simulated love making along the path to the drama's 'poignant' conclusion. The (widescreen) film transer is super clean & sharp (something I've noticed in many German DVD pressings). This may not be one of Franco's most notable efforts, but it is a solid representation of his milieu. In addition to the 'featured' Franco film, this box also includes a second DVD entitled "Amorous Sisters" - which is a full length Swiss(?) sexploitation effort. It focuses on a class of young girls at a finishing school somewhere in the Alpine countryside who are having 'biology' lessons in 'sexual reproduction' from their attractive female teacher. As each aspect of the human sexual apparatus is discussed it leads to a vignette of wholesome sexual frolics with the girls of the class. Pretty light-weight fare but lotsa nudity and cute girls make it an easy watch - somewhat similar to the 'Schoolgirl Report' series. Both films are in foreign lanuage w/ English subs. No 'extras' on either disk other than some 'trailers'.

...eigentlich wollte ich nur mal sehen, warum man heute einen so großen Wirbel um die Filme mit Lina Romay macht. Im Grunde ist es ein Softsex-Filmchen, wie es sie damals zu Massen gab. Story und Schauspieler sind durch die Bank Mittelklasse (wenn man es bei manchen noch nett ausdrücken will). Wer aber bodenständig in der Erwartung bleibt und keine Glanzleistungen erwartet, wird zumindest unterhalten. Die Altersfreigabe ab 18 halte ich aber für einen Witz. da bekommen Kinder unter 16 Jahren an jedem Zeitungsständer eines jeden Kiosk mehr zu sehen.

'Swedish Nympho Slaves' is another of Jess Franco's trademark sexploitation efforts prominantly featuring his main squeeze Lina Romay. The cover art on the DVD case is a little deceptive as it depicts Ms Romay behind bars in a classic WIP pose when, in fact, she never is in prison in this flik. Rather, she plays the domineering owner of a sexy club on some un-named exotic island, that features a lot of strippers and prostitutes. The 'plot' revolves around a kidnap/ransom scenario involving the daughter of a fat millionaire who is trying to get his offspring back & he has found out that she was seen in Lina's establishment. The movie unfolds initally as a series of flashbacks that tell the back-story of how Romay's character met the millionaire's daughter, lured her into a lesbian relationship, then ultimately turned her into a 'sex slave' prostitute at her establishment. I think this may be where the 'Swedish Nympho' element comes into the title - the young girl 'looks' sorta Swedish (she's blonde!) altho there is never really any other reference to her nationality - in fact the actual translation of the film's Euro-title is simply "The Slave". When people realize that the young girl is 'valuable' she becomes a bit of a pawn in a struggle between a couple of rival crime syndicates to barter her off to her father, who is also using his 'resources' to track her down. While this all sounds pretty complex, Franco doesn't let the plot get in the way of providing as many sex scenes as he can squeeze in and there are numerous varied sexual scenarios presented featuring women of many different colors and sexual preferences. Per usual, Franco manages to throw in a little S&M via some 'interrogation' scenes and there's plenty of full female nudity & simulated love making along the path to the drama's 'poignant' conclusion. The (widescreen) film transer is super clean & sharp (something I've noticed in many German DVD pressings). This may not be one of Franco's most notable efforts, but it is a solid representation of his milieu. In addition to the 'featured' Franco film, this box also includes a second DVD entitled "Amorous Sisters" - which is a full length Swiss(?) sexploitation effort. It focuses on a class of young girls at a finishing school somewhere in the Alpine countryside who are having 'biology' lessons in 'sexual reproduction' from their attractive female teacher. As each aspect of the human sexual apparatus is discussed it leads to a vignette of wholesome sexual frolics with the girls of the class. Pretty light-weight fare but lotsa nudity and cute girls make it an easy watch - somewhat similar to the 'Schoolgirl Report' series. Both films are in foreign lanuage w/ English subs. No 'extras' on either disk other than some 'trailers'.

film da collezionare per chi è fan di Lina Romei la visione è ottima da vedere fa parte di pochi film che si trovano è da collezionare

Erwin C. Dietrich! Da ich sehr lange als Filmvorführer gearbeitet habe sind mir die Filme von Herrn Dietrich wohl bekannt, für mich eine Erinnerung an meine Anfangszeit im Kino, heute eher lächerlich, mag diese Film aber immer noch.

Eh.