When it comes to stereotypes about Italians in the German culture, Rinaldo Talamonti has a lot to answer for. In the early 1970s he appeared in numerous German soft-sex comedies as the ever-ready, ever-willing horny Italian.
Usually these were minor roles but here he takes the lead as Ugo Domani, an Italian 'Gastarbeiter' working as a dustman in Germany. Yes, this is a 'Proletenporno', one of these soft-sexers set in the working class milieu which were rather popular in West Germany in the mid-1970s. In his spare time, our Ugo likes to cycle and one day he gets discovered as a potential professional bike racer (for six-day events, a peculiar specialty in central Europe, mostly Germany). One condition is attached to his racing career: "no sex, please, because you've got to keep your strength".
Giving that our Ugo lives in a shared accommodation and his roommates are at it like rabbits on viagra, this clause in his contract proves rather difficult to keep, especially as a rival racing manager sends out his sirens to squeeze the juice out of our poor Ugo. In other words: this is a stereotypical sex comedy plot, extremely predictable in each of its minor twists.
Usually these were minor roles but here he takes the lead as Ugo Domani, an Italian 'Gastarbeiter' working as a dustman in Germany. Yes, this is a 'Proletenporno', one of these soft-sexers set in the working class milieu which were rather popular in West Germany in the mid-1970s. In his spare time, our Ugo likes to cycle and one day he gets discovered as a potential professional bike racer (for six-day events, a peculiar specialty in central Europe, mostly Germany). One condition is attached to his racing career: "no sex, please, because you've got to keep your strength".
Giving that our Ugo lives in a shared accommodation and his roommates are at it like rabbits on viagra, this clause in his contract proves rather difficult to keep, especially as a rival racing manager sends out his sirens to squeeze the juice out of our poor Ugo. In other words: this is a stereotypical sex comedy plot, extremely predictable in each of its minor twists.
