''El Satario'' (), also known as ''El Sartorio'' or ''”The Devil”'', is the name of one of the earliest surviving
pornographic film
Pornographic films (pornos), erotic films, adult films, blue films, sexually explicit films, or 18+ films, are films that represent Human sexual activity, sexually WIKT:explicit, explicit subject matter in order to sexual arousal, arouse, fasci ...
s. Based on the fashions and technology depicted, it was likely produced in
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
around 1907, and includes possibly the first use of
extreme close-ups of
genitalia
A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction. Sex organs constitute the primary sex characteristics of an organism. Sex organs are responsible for producing and transporting ...
. One author has suggested that it may instead date to 1930s
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
. It has also been suggested that the film is intended as a parody of
Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav or Vatslav Nijinsky (12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish ancestry. He is regarded as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.
Nijinsky was celebrated for his virtuosity and f ...
's ballet ''
Afternoon of a Faun''.
Plot
While a group of nude young women are frolicking in the countryside, a
satyr
In Greek mythology, a satyr (, ), also known as a silenus or ''silenos'' ( ), and sileni (plural), is a male List of nature deities, nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection. ...
appears (called a
devil
A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conce ...
in a titlecard), causing the women to flee. One of the women faints and is sexually assaulted by him, first in
69 position
69 or sixty-nine is a sex position in which two people align themselves so that each person's mouth is near the other's genitals, allowing each partner to simultaneously perform oral sex on the other. The participants are thus mutually inverted ...
and then in various
penile-vaginal positions, until he
ejaculates in her vagina. At points he also attempts to finger her anus, an act she vigorously resists. The other women then return and put him to flight.
Release
The
Kinsey Institute
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (often shortened to The Kinsey Institute) is a research institute at Indiana University. Established in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1947 as a nonprofit, the institute merged with In ...
dates the film between 1907 and 1912. Journalist
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky (; 9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was a German journalist, satire, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser (after the Kaspar Hauser, historical figure), Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wr ...
described in a 1913 article his experience viewing several
stag film
A stag film (also blue movie or smoker) is the euphemistic term for a type of pornographic film of underground productions beginning in the late 1800s until the late 1960s when major Hollywood productions of adult films became mainstream. Typical ...
s in Berlin, one of which has a similar description to ''El Satario''.
See also
* ''
Le Coucher de la Mariée
(''Bedtime for the Bride'' or ''The Bridegroom's Dilemma'') is a French erotic short film considered to be one of the first erotic films ever made. The film was first screened in Paris in November 1896, within a year of the first public screeni ...
''
*
''Am Abend''
*
''A Free Ride''
References
External links
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1907 films
1907 short films
1900s pornographic films
Argentine black-and-white films
Argentine silent films