Revelation Films presents a collection of Sweden's finest and most infamous erotica of the late 60s and 70s.A mixture of eroticism, arthouse and education, movies such as The Language of Love, Exposed, Wide Open and Anita (starring the mesmerising Christina Lindberg) blurred the lines between sex and art. Controversial and banned at the time, yet now viewed as ground-breaking and an influence on many of today's finest film directors, The Swedish Erotica Collection contains themes that pushed the boundaries of acceptability and shocked even the liberal mind country they originated from.
Christina Lindberg stars as Anita, a 17 year-old nymphomaniac. Rejected by her oppressive parents, Anita turns to men for sex. This develops into a damaging obsession, sleeping with strangers, junkies and even hanging around the local railway station to snare men from out of town. Polarised by the local community, Anita meets a psychology student named Erik, who befriends her. Fascinated by Anita, he uses her as a case study and sets out to discover the root of her behaviour. Diagnosing the causes of her nymphomania is easy. Resisting Anita and finding a cure proves more challenging.
The sexual revolution of the 1960s culminated in Dr David Reuben's Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask), published in 1969. That same year, Krlekens Sprk (The Language of Love) was released in Sweden, a sexually explicit sex education film based on clinical research made by American and Swedish doctors. Controversy surrounded the release - to many it was little more than sexploitation masquerading as scientific study. It was denied entrance into the US, and here in the UK 30,000 protestors marched in London demanding the film be banned. Eventually granted a certificate four years later. 40 years on, The Language Of Love remains an important historical insight into the sexual behaviour of an equally important period of social change, and is rightly described as the mother of all sex education films.
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