Sex report films (

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: ''Report-Filme'') were

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that had sexual life as their subject matter. Effectively

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s, the genre was particularly popular in the early 1970s

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Background

Mostly a German (or Germanophone) phenomenon, these films followed the wake of the Kinsey and

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type reports as well as maintaining elements from the German-speaking educational films (''Aufklärungsfilme'') tradition. Producers

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(particularly in the late 1960s) and Wolf C. Hartwig were active in the genre: the latter produced the Schulmädchen-Report films, which may be considered a subgenre on their own.

After ''Schulmädchen-Report''

The success of the ''Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern nicht für möglich halten'' in 1970 triggered a range of new films that had titles ending with the word ''-Report'' per norm, which ostensibly focused on certain populations and gradually lost their pseudo-documentary tone. ''Hausfrauen-Report'' (1971), ''Ehemänner-Report'' (1971), ''Lehrmädchen-Report'' (1972), ''Krankenschwestern-Report'' (1972), ''Teenager-Report'' (1973) were among the most distinguished specimens of the genre, where

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was exalted as a pioneering director.

References

* * Sexploitation films 1970s German-language films Film genres {{film-genre-stub