1969 German sex comedy where virginity is 'embarrassing' and the love interests are a middle-aged man AND a repentant gigolo. Chaos.
A student, tired of a too well-mannered fiancé, loses a virginity she considers very embarrassing in the arms of a forty-year-old man, before finding love with a repentant gigolo.
Costume
Glorious late-60s German fashion disasters you cannot look away from.
Writing
Dialogue so blunt it feels accidentally modern, probably accidentally.
Director
Wolfgang Becker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ellenbogen = 'elbow' in German; the title's a pun on social maneuvering and literal tangling. German sex comedies of this era were rare, awkward attempts to copy French success while keeping Protestant guilt.
Director Wolfgang Becker (not the Good Bye, Lenin! one—this is the other one) made this during the brief window when German cinema tried 'light entertainment' before New German Cinema went dark and serious.
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