''Julia'' () is a 1974

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from

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starring

Sylvia Kristel Sylvia Maria Kristel (28 September 1952 17 October 2012) was a Dutch actress and model who appeared in over 50 films. She was the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films, including originating the role with ''Emmanuelle'' (1974) ...

. It was released in France in 1975 and recorded admissions of 403,892.

Plot

Pauli is a sexually frustrated young man who is surrounded by sexually liberated women who will not give him the time of day. He meets a beautiful virgin woman, Andrea, who strongly resists his charms, which compounds his frustrations. It is summer, and the air is quivering with passion, as teenager Pauli, who stays at boarding school, travels to a small seaside town to enjoy the holidays with his family. On the train, he gets to know the attractive woman, in whose compartment he sits down immediately after he has risked a glimpse into the section of the sleeping beauty. A little later, she vanishes and has sex with a stranger in the train toilet. He is thunderstruck at the train station when his father picks up not only him but also her. The unfaithful blonde, Yvonne, is obviously the mistress of his own father. The mood in the villa is heated up from the beginning sexually: His womanizer father and sexy Yvonne, a crazy grandmother, Mimi, a cuckolded uncle, Alex, his oversexed lesbian wife, Myriam, and the lesbian maid, Silvana. Soon, he meets his old neighbor Julia, who turns out to be an 18-year-old beauty. Like Pauli, she is still a virgin, but perhaps this summer, when they both lose their innocence, they will be to each other. But there are several who are looking for the young beauty. Not least Pauli's own father.

Cast

as Andrea (Julia in the English overdub version) *

Jean-Claude Bouillon Jean-Claude Bouillon (27 December 1941 – 31 July 2017) was a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1966 until 2015. Filmography References Footnotes Sources * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouillon, Jean-Clau ...

as Ralph *

Teri Tordai Teri Tordai (born 28 December 1941) is a Hungarian actress. She has appeared in a large number of European films, including a number of costume films made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially '' Frau Wirtin'' series of Franz Antel, w ...

as Yvonne *

Gisela Hahn Gisela Hahn (born ''Gisela Drenkhan''; 13 May 1943) is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films since 1964. She was born in the city of Wąbrzeźno (Briesen in German) during the German occupation of World War II, therefore ...

as Myriam * Ekkehardt Belle as Pauli (Patrick in the English overdub version) *

Peter Berling Peter Berling (20 March 1934 – 21 November 2017) was a German actor, film producer and writer. He has worked on several occasions with director Werner Herzog, among them his collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski like '' Aguirre, the Wrath of G ...

as Uncle Alex * Dominique Delpierre as Hildegard

Production

The film was shot in the summer of 1974, in

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, and on Lake Wörthersee,

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and released on 1974-11-28.

German title

The German title "''It Was Not the Nightingale''" is a allusion to

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s ''

Romeo and Juliet ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...

'', Act 3, Scene 5:
Sylvia Kristel recreates the balcony scene during the visit to Verona.

References

External links

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bfi.org.uk

filmportal.de
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