I saw this movie before, over ten years ago, and yeah I agree with Lisa, lurid is definitely good word to describe it. The nude beach scenes are pretty good, although the majority of the people there were young and attractive, and there are a lot more girls there than I have ever seen on any nude beach in North America, Europe, or Australia.
But the rest of the movie yikes!
I don’t really have any problems with that teen boy after putting his swim suit back on and joining his textile friends 5 minutes later fooling around with a girl and fondling her bare breasts. Followed by the scene where a bunch of guys pull down another guys underwear while he is sleeping and smearing boot polish on him. Or a few minutes after that, a young nude couple on the beach making out and caressing their bodies and touching the girls pubic area and rubbing the guys erect penis. Nor do I have any problem with the extremely graphic child birth scene, as it’s no worse than anything shown in a high school sex ed class.
My issue is that they have a lengthy scene of families on a nude beach, people of all ages nude in a non sexual manner. In a film that shows teens having sex or at least performing sexual acts. Now I don’t speak German and admittedly it has been a while since I’ve seen this movie but, doesn’t it sort of sexualize the nude beach part a bit? I do remember the dad while on the nude beach asking his 16 year old daughter, Cornelia, if she is comfortable with guys seeing her nude body and she replies that she doesn’t mind at all, but that is all I remember, other than the bit that Marmal was kind enough to translate for us Anglos.
It just seems that this film is about teenage sexuality so the producers just filmed on a nude beach filled with young people as an easy way to show a bunch of naked teens. I didn’t mind so much when I first saw it when I was 14 or 15 years old, as me and a few of my friends were always looking for old 1970’s and 1980’s European movies that had lots of sex and nudity of people our age. But since I got introduced to nudism and definitely as I have gotten older I really have no tolerance for stuff like that. I don’t mind some one taking pictures of, or filming people under 18 years old on a nude beach. As long as it doesn’t seem lurid. But those teen and preteen nudist beauty pageant videos that are advertised on most nudist sites don’t sit well with me. Just like this film, but it was made in the 70‘s, it was apparently a different time, that whole sexual revolution and all, so I guess it can be forgiven.