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''Am Abend'' (, "''In the Evening''") is an early 20th century
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which was made in 1910. Along with the
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film '' El Satario'' (c. 1907–1915) and the American film ''
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'' or ''A Grass Sandwich'' (c. 1915–1917), it is one of the earliest hardcore
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s, produced between the years 1907 and 1915, that have been collected at the
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Description

Like the other two films, ''Am Abend'' begins with a primitive narrative frame sequence, then it shows signs of a more conventional cinema for a short period of time, and it finally shows hard-core scenes in a fragmented manner.
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scholar Linda Williams, suggested that early pornographic films, such as ''Am Abend'', like modern-day pornographic videos, showed close ups of
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s and medium shots of
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. Thus, there were structural similarities between early stag films and modern-day pornographic videos. The duration of ''Am Abend'' is 10 minutes. The film starts with an act of
voyeurism Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature. The term comes from the French ''voir'' which means "to see". ...
, depicting a man peeping through a keyway into a woman's bedroom. In the room, the woman lies alone on a bed and masturbates for some minutes. Then, the man enters the woman's bedroom, undresses himself, the woman gives him a bath and the two partners engage in different sexual activities in multiple
sex positions A sex position is a positioning of the bodies that people use to engage in sexual intercourse or other sexual activities. Sexual acts are generally described by the positions the participants adopt in order to perform those acts. Though sexua ...
. The sexual activities includes the man penetrating from top,
fellatio Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act consisting of the stimulation of a human penis, penis by using the mouth. Oral stimulation of the scrotum may also be termed ''fellat ...
, further masturbation by the woman, and sex in the
doggy style Doggy style is a sex position in which one participant bends over, crouches on all fours (usually on hands and knees), or lies on their abdomen, for sexual intercourse, other forms of sexual penetration or other sexual activity. Doggy style ...
position. The sex, however, is stopped prematurely when the man suffers from
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. The hard-core scene in this film is shown in a
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of the man and woman in their bed with inserted close-ups of the genitals, penetration, etc.


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