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==Legacy==
==Legacy==
American pornographic film critic [[Jim Holliday]] described this film as "easily the best and most accurate of several films based on the life and adventures of legendary Viennese madam Josephine Mutzenbacher" and his "all time foreign favorite" adult film.<ref name="Holliday1986">{{cite book|author=Jim Holliday|authorlink=Jim Holliday|title=Only the Best: Jim Holliday's Adult Video Almanac and Trivia Treasury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIqGAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=20 August 2013|year=1986|publisher=Cal Vista Direct|page=84}}</ref> ''The Film Journal'' described ''Sensational Janine'' as "one of the most successful foreign X-rated films ever to cross the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Film Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngXsAAAAMAAJ| accessdate=20 August 2013|date=January 1984|publisher=Pubsun Corporation (Pennsylvania State University)|page=26}}</ref> A review on ''TV Kult'' stated that the movie is "today seen as one of the best porns of all time".<ref name="Heidi" /> ''Pornoklassiker'' called it "possibly the best German pornographic film."<ref name="Klassiker">{{cite web|url=http://www.pornoklassiker.de/josephine_mutzenbacher.htm|title=JOSEFINE MUTZENBACHER ...WIE SIE WIRKLICH WAR - Teil 1|trans-title=Josefine Mutzenbacher ... as she really was – Part 1|language=de|date=|accessdate=23 September 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095634/http://www.pornoklassiker.de/josephine_mutzenbacher.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
American pornographic film director and critic [[Jim Holliday]] has described this film as "easily the best and most accurate of several films based on the life and adventures of legendary Viennese [[Procuring (prostitution)|madam]] Josephine Mutzenbacher" and his "all time foreign favorite" adult film.<ref name="Holliday 1986">{{cite book |last1=Holliday |first1=Jim |title=Only the Best: Jim Holliday's Adult Video Almanac and Trivia Treasury |date=1986 |publisher=Cal Vista Direct |location=Van Nuys, Calif. |page=84 |oclc=15317190 |lccn=86223045 |language=en}}</ref> according to ''[[The Film Journal]]'', ''Sensational Janine'' was "one of the most successful foreign x-rated films ever to cross the Atlantic".<ref name="Film Journal 1984">{{citation |mode=cs1 |last= |first= |title= |magazine=The Film Journal |date=1984 |volume=87 |issue= |page=26 |issn=0019-3712}}</ref> The website ''[[TV-Kult]]'' says the film is "now considered one of the best porn films of all time".<ref name="Kuboth 2009">{{cite web |last1=Kuboth |first1=Sebastian |title=Heidi, das Luder von der Alm |trans-title=Heidi, the babe from the mountain pasture |website=TV-Kult |language=de |url=http://www.tv-kult.com/kritiken/670-heidi-das-luder-von-der-alm.html |date=22 May 2009 |accessdate=18 September 2025}}</ref> The website ''Pornoklassiker'' called it "possibly the best German pornographic film."<ref name="Pornoklassiker n.d.">{{cite web|url=http://www.pornoklassiker.de/josephine_mutzenbacher.htm|title=Josefine Mutzenbacher ...Wie Sie Wirklich War - Teil 1|trans-title=Josefine Mutzenbacher ...as she really was – Part 1|language=de|date=n.d. |website=Pornoklassiker.de |archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095634/http://www.pornoklassiker.de/josephine_mutzenbacher.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>


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Sensational Janine
Directed byHans Billian
Written byHans Billian
Based onJosephine Mutzenbacher
Produced byGunter Otto
StarringPatricia Rhomberg
CinematographyGunter Otto
Music byDave Apfelbaum
Distributed byHerzog Filme
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Sensational Janine (German: Josefine Mutzenbacher... wie sie wirklich war - 1. Teil ) is a 1976 West German hardcore costume drama-sex comedy film directed by Hans Billian. The film is an adaptation of the anonymous early 20th century novel Josephine Mutzenbacher on the sexual awakening of the eponymous and fictional fin-de-siècle Viennese courtesan.

Background

Sensational Janine features director Hans Billian's girlfriend Patricia Rhomberg in the title role. Billian gave her the role in part due to the fact that she had the proper dialect.[1] Sensational Janine became the first pornographic film to feature a humorous Viennese German, which contributed significantly to its popularity among the German-speaking audience.[2]

In the original novel, Josefine is a Viennese teen who is very curious about sex. After she is deflowered by her neighbor Frau Reinthaler's lover Horak, she begins a very active sex life. Following her mother's abrupt demise, she engages in a relationship with her stepfather. A lodger blackmails the two with the accusation of incest. The lodger is then revealed to be a pimp and turns Josefine into one of his prostitutes. This is the start of Josefine’s career as a sex worker; though her later life is not detailed in the novel, she eventually becomes an upscale courtesan in Vienna.[3]

Synopsis

Josefine discovers her stepbrother masturbating while listening to their parents having intercourse. The step-siblings engage in mutual masturbation until they both orgasm. They then go to her room and attempt intercourse; it is painful for her so she offers to use her mouth, and they perform sixty-nine until he climaxes.

Josefine determines to learn all that she can about sex. She spies upon and masturbates to her stepfather Mr. Gray having sex with the widow Mrs. Peabody and her mother having sex with boarder Mr. Baker. She tries to entice Baker with her decolletage but is scolded by her mother. Josefine later follows Peabody to the basement and catches her having sex with tavern-owner Mr. Hutchison, who is storing rum there. Hutchison tries to bribe Josefine to keep the secret, but Josefine seduces him and shames Peabody. Josefine then loses her virginity to Hutchison. Later, while masturbating naked in front of a mirror, Josefine realizes that her breasts are developing.

Josefine's mother is hospitalized with pneumonia while her stepbrother is away for military service. After her stepfather leaves for work, Josefine awakens Baker with a handjob and they engage in numerous sex acts initiated by Josefine. She then goes to make Baker's breakfast and while naked in the kitchen her stepfather walks in and announces that her mother is dead. Josefine's feelings of guilt lead her to sexual abstinence, though she masturbates to fall asleep at night. She finds that her stepfather is doing the same thing, and after he falls asleep she tells him that she's sorry while caressing her breasts.

Josefine's stepfather makes her an appointment with a priest, who asks her to confess her sins. She doesn't know how to respond so the priest offers to purify her with his tongue and performs cunnilingus. Overcome with lust, Josefine performs various sex acts with the priest; her friend Maresi catches them and joins in a threesome. Josefine then accompanies Maresi to her mansion, pausing to have sex with their carriage driver in a field, and they have an orgy with two house servants during which the women have lesbian sex with each other. Josefine expresses her envy at the number of virile men Maresi has at her disposal.

Josefine is required to sleep in her stepfather's bed when he takes on another lodger, and she explains that she prefers to sleep in the nude. Josefine enjoys her stepfather having sex with her while she pretends to be asleep and after a few times she breaks and has passionate sex with him, telling him that he can do so every night. They make a pact to keep it a secret, but while having sex in the kitchen the lodger catches them and blackmails her to have sex with him. Later, the lodger brings prostitute Zenzi and they have an orgy with Josefine and her stepfather, and the four have sex together regularly. One morning, the lodger and stepfather persuade Josefine to become an adult film star.

Josephine takes a stroll when a handsome man asks her to come to his mansion. There, while he leaves to attend to something, Josephine begins having sex with a servant. She stops midway and breaks the fourth wall by telling the audience that if they want to see more of her they should go and watch her newest film.

Cast

  • Patricia Rhomberg as Josefine Mutzenbacher ("Janine")[3]
  • Sepp Gneißl (Sepp Gneissl) as Eckhard, the first lodger[3][relevant?]
  • Frithjof Klausen as Josefine's stepfather[3]
  • Siggi Buchner as Horak, the delivery man[3]
  • Birgit Zamulo as Maresi, the rich girl[3]
  • Peter Holzmüller as Priest[3]
  • Marie-France Morel as Zenzi, the older prostitute[3]
  • Edgar Wenzel as Police commissioner[3][relevant?]

Legacy

American pornographic film director and critic Jim Holliday has described this film as "easily the best and most accurate of several films based on the life and adventures of legendary Viennese madam Josephine Mutzenbacher" and his "all time foreign favorite" adult film.[4] according to The Film Journal, Sensational Janine was "one of the most successful foreign x-rated films ever to cross the Atlantic".[5] The website TV-Kult says the film is "now considered one of the best porn films of all time".[6] The website Pornoklassiker called it "possibly the best German pornographic film."[7]

References

  1. ^ Musketier Media staff (22 May 2009). "Heidi, das Luder von der Alm" [Heidi, the bitch from the Alm]. TV Kult (in German). Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Klassiker was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Josefine Mutzenbacher ... wie sie wirklich war 1. Teil". The European Girls Adult Film Database. Archived from the original on 12 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  4. ^ Holliday, Jim (1986). Only the Best: Jim Holliday's Adult Video Almanac and Trivia Treasury. Van Nuys, Calif.: Cal Vista Direct. p. 84. LCCN 86223045. OCLC 15317190.
  5. ^ The Film Journal. Vol. 87. p. 26. 1984. ISSN 0019-3712. {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Kuboth, Sebastian (22 May 2009). "Heidi, das Luder von der Alm" [Heidi, the babe from the mountain pasture]. TV-Kult (in German). Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Josefine Mutzenbacher ...Wie Sie Wirklich War - Teil 1" [Josefine Mutzenbacher ...as she really was – Part 1]. Pornoklassiker.de (in German). n.d. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
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