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The inimitable Ernst Haufbauer tackles sex in the workplace
lazarillo26 April 2011
German director Ernst Hofbauer, along with his sometimes collaborator Walter Boos and producer Wolf Hartwig, created the 70's "sex-report" films, fake docudramas about the exploits of sexy schoolgirls and horny housewives (all played by the same group of German and Scandinavian actresses who weren't particularly believable as either). Well, here Hofbauer tackles the subject of "sex at the office", and while this will never make it as one of those sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace training videos, it's certainly a lot more fun. The frame story involves a male boss who is caught en flagrante with a female underling by the the cleaning staff. Although the actress (Karin Field from "The Mad Butcher") looks nearly 30, her character is actually 18, yet (in the confused English audio version) also "underage". So while the legal magistrates decide the man's fate, two reporters decide to go out and "research" other stories about illicit office sex.

Most of the stories are beyond ridiculous, but they're sometimes pretty sexy. One poor guy is the sole male supervisor in an office of sex-mad foreign women. An Italian girl and a Greek girl get in a catfight over him (and one of them uses an interesting move where she pulls down her opponent's panties and spanks her). Anyway, to the victor eventually goes the spoils. Then a female fashion boss, who usually contents herself with lesbian couplings (and triplings), falls in love with an (apparently) straight man. It all goes awry, and she attempts suicide, but winds up happily in the arms of her fat male psychologist (lucky her). Still, this story is more entertaining than "The Devil Wears Prada". Then there's an actual BELIEVABLE story of a boss sexually harassing a young female employee (how'd that one get in here?). Then a "perverted" husband and wife sexually abuse a foreign maid, but turnabout is fair play as the husband receives a bare-ass whipping from two burly foreign garbage men?! And the goofy-looking "sex-report" regular Michael Schreiner also shows up at one point--once again, he has hooked with an improbably attractive fraulein, but once again it all goes horribly wrong. . .

The women are typically attractive, but the story-telling is quite a bit lazier than usual. There's also a hilarious amount of self-promotion here with posters from Hofbauer's more well-known "schuldmachen-report" films often seen in the background. Those are generally better than this one, but if you're really into office sex, this just might be for you.
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2/10
School girl report at the office
Horst_In_Translation25 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Erotik im Beruf - Was jeder Personalchef gern verschweigt" or "Eros in the Office" (and there are a handful other alternate titles for this one) is a West German movie directed by Ernst Hofbauer and written by Günther Heller. If you know a bit about older German films, then you may have heard of these names already, especially of Hofbauer as he is (in)famous for all his sex-themed comedy movies that always posses a bit of a pseudo-journalistic character. And this also fits very well when it comes to describing these 85 minutes. If you have seen any of the many "School Girl Report" films, you know exactly what to expect here. This film is a collection of short films basically that all take place at the office or at least have a connection to the jobs of office workers and in-between these segments we get to see a couple interviews in which people in the street are asked random questions, like what if your man would cheat on you with his secretary or alternatively stuff like if the female interviewees would enter into an affair with their boss. The answers to these questions are as absurd as promiscuous and I have no doubt that it was all scripted, all the answers they give etc. So yeah, the journalistic component is absolutely non-existent and it is impossible to take the film seriously from that perspective. Now about the short stories. Most of them are pretty disastrous to watch. The acting is bad, the plots do not make any sense at all and the possibly worst component is that the pornographic scenes are not even aesthetically pleasing. Besides, once again like with the interviews, this film takes itself much more seriously than it has any right to as one story is even pretty tragic towards the end. But this is not dramatically convincing at any point. or convincing from a comedy perspective. or from any other perspective. This film is a pretty big failure and it is impossibly to find any reason for me to recommend it. The only somewhat good thing is maybe that unlike with the films from the series I mentioned earlier they did not have to cast grown-up actresses as school girls this time. But yeah, stay far far away from watching this one. It is as crappy as 90% of Hofbauer's body of work.
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