Lederhosenfilm
March 29th, 2012
We are constantly amused by the items in the Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection that fall into the category we call Bavarian Softcore (see previous blog post on erotica).
Today, while working on the oeuvre of Sigi Rothemund, we discovered these films do have their own genre title, very close to the one we had assigned to it: Lederhosenfilm, which apparently translates into “Bavarian porn,” a title that is far less amusing (and less descriptive!).
Cola, Candy, Chocolate (Sigi Rothemund, 1979) lobby card
The above image, from the instant classic COLA, CANDY, CHOCOLATE, apparently typical for the director Sigi Rothemund (AKA Siggi Götz), brilliantly incorporates two themes that will always be funny – a chimp wearing clothes and women popping out of their tops. The image below, from the same film, adds the additional hilarity of a man in poorly done drag with the chimp (who, come to think of it, can also be considered to be in poorly done drag).
Candy, Cola, Chocolate AKA Drei kesse Bienen auf den Philippinen (Sigi Rothemund, 1979)
Mr. Rothemund was also partly responsible for a film that is difficult to comprehend from the production materials:
Starke Zeiten (Klaudi Fröhlich, Rolf Olsen, Otto Retzer, Sigi Rothemund, 1988)
STARKE ZEITEN, a production with no less than 4 credited directors plus a co-director, includes the above scene with David Hasselhoff as a mad scientist? And then it’s off to the Middle East to blow up oil fields and drive around in a strange collage of mis-sized people! Naturally, a chimp in human’s clothing (upper left) directs.
Starke Zeiten (Klaudi Fröhlich, Rolf Olsen, Otto Retzer, Sigi Rothemund, 1988)
Although nobody appears in lederhosen in the above images (and nobody appears to be in Bavaria), we assure you these are part of the much beloved Lederhosenfilm genre.
Next time we write about it, we promise to provide pix of people in Lederhosen being naughty in Bavaria.
A note to those of you looking for a research topic for your film studies degree – it doesn’t look like anyone has written much about Lederhosenfilm. Just a suggestion.