A 1929 German sex-ed film so frank it scandalized cinemas—and it's not even porn.
Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
Production
Banned and censored across Europe—pure forbidden fruit energy.
Direction
Frowein somehow makes diagrams feel dangerously intimate.
Director
Eberhard Frowein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dr. van de Velde's 1926 marriage manual was a global bestseller; this film adaptation brought his clinical sex positivity to the masses, terrifying moral guardians everywhere.
Lil Dagover, the wife in the bored marriage segment, had starred in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari nine years earlier—talk about a career pivot from expressionist horror to expressionist horniness.
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