Zodiac-films
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The Zodiac-films is a series of six feature films from 1973-1978, and form part of the wave of erotic films from Denmark
.
The Six films are connected by a zodiac
-starsign in the title of each film. They were produced by the film company Happy Film. The first film was directed by Finn Karlsson, the five others by Werner Hedman. All six starred Danish actor Ole Søltoft
.
All the Zodiac-films had many hardcore pornographic sex scenes, but were nevertheless considered mainstream films. They all had mainstream casts and crews, and were shown in mainstream cinemas and reviewed in national newspapers etc.
Another Danish film company, Palladium, made a similar series called the Bedside-films
, also starring Ole Søltoft
. The Zodiac-films were to some extent a sexually more explicit copy of the Bedside-films. The first Danish sex comedies were made in the 1960s, but Ole Ege's Bordellet
(1972) was the first to have hardcore sex-scenes.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
.
The Six films are connected by a zodiac
Zodiac
In astronomy, the zodiac is a circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude which are centred upon the ecliptic: the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year...
-starsign in the title of each film. They were produced by the film company Happy Film. The first film was directed by Finn Karlsson, the five others by Werner Hedman. All six starred Danish actor Ole Søltoft
Ole Søltoft
Ole Søltoft was a Danish actor who became an icon of the 1970s wave of Danish erotic feature film comedies. For over a decade he starred or co-starred in nearly all notable film in this genre and became hopelessly typecast, usually playing naive, likeable guys with a healthy sexual appetite...
.
All the Zodiac-films had many hardcore pornographic sex scenes, but were nevertheless considered mainstream films. They all had mainstream casts and crews, and were shown in mainstream cinemas and reviewed in national newspapers etc.
Another Danish film company, Palladium, made a similar series called the Bedside-films
Bedside-films
The Bedside-films is a series of eight feature films directed by John Hilbard in 1970-1976, and form part of the wave of erotic films from Denmark.The eight films are connected by the Danish word "sengekant" in the title of each film...
, also starring Ole Søltoft
Ole Søltoft
Ole Søltoft was a Danish actor who became an icon of the 1970s wave of Danish erotic feature film comedies. For over a decade he starred or co-starred in nearly all notable film in this genre and became hopelessly typecast, usually playing naive, likeable guys with a healthy sexual appetite...
. The Zodiac-films were to some extent a sexually more explicit copy of the Bedside-films. The first Danish sex comedies were made in the 1960s, but Ole Ege's Bordellet
Bordellet
Bordellet is a Danish theatrical sex comedy film made by pornographic pioneer Ole Ege and notable for being Denmark's first full-length hardcore pornographic feature film....
(1972) was the first to have hardcore sex-scenes.
The Zodiac-films
- 1. I Jomfruens tegn (Finn Karlsson, 1973)
- 2. I Tyrens tegn (Werner Hedman, 1974)
- 3. I Tvillingernes tegn (Werner Hedman, 1975)
- 4. I Løvens tegn (Werner Hedman, 1976)
- 5. Agent 69 Jensen i Skorpionens tegn (Werner Hedman, 1977)
- 6. Agent 69 Jensen i Skyttens tegn (Werner Hedman, 1978)