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3/10
More Desires for Sex and Money
jaibo31 January 2011
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This is a minor Eurosleaze hardcore spectacle concerning the misadventures of a group of young (late teens/early 20s) Swedish girls who take a holiday in Ibiza. They travel by boat, things getting off to a telling start when one of their number almost makes them miss the boat as she has been busy shagging her lift to the quay in a field (a goat looking on with interest). One of the number, a boyish blonde, assures the rest that she has their money and passports. On arrival in Ibiza, this blonde nearly misses the port as she is (we soon see why they are all friends) shagging a bloke in her cabin. She rushes ashore but sure enough she leaves their valuables on board. The girls meet an obliging black bisexual woman who lets them stay in her sea-view villa and pay their way on the Island by taking a variety of jobs (casino hostess, shop-assistant, go-go dancer), each of the girls invariably shagging the boss of the establishment they are working in. They men are, for the most part, old enough to be the girls' fathers.

That's pretty much it in terms of plot. There's no twists and turns, merely a parade of sexual vignettes, culminating in an orgy on board a small ship. The film could be said to be illustrative of a transitionary period in hardcore feature-length porn: gone is the character and plot development of the golden age, replaced by a series of casually-linked sex sequences; yet Sechs Schwedinnen auf Ibiza was photographed on film and released to cinemas. As videotape and home viewing became more prevalent, the plot lines mostly became minimal and disappeared, leaving only the heaving bodies.

It is hard to imagine how this played in the cinema. Director Gérard Loubeau films the exteriors beautifully, with a good eye for scenic prettiness, but rarely makes any interesting shot choices in the interiors (the exception being a sex scene which begins reflected in a mirrored table). The sex sequences are hardcore and admirers of the actresses Olinka Hardiman and Marianne Aubert will find much to admire here.

The film was released in 1986 in British cinemas as More Desires Within Young Girls. The film has nothing to do with the 1978 American film Desires Within Young Girls, except that both films posit those desires involve only making money and having lots of hot sex. All hardcore elements would have been cut from the UK theatrical release; it is impossible to imagine this was much of a night out at the pictures in that form.
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5/10
Six Clucking Hens
selfdestructo12 November 2022
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At least, it's dubbed that way. I bought Six Swedes in Paradise for one reason: I found out there was another Erwin C. Dietrich "Six Swedish Girls" movie in existence. I simply had to see it. He writes and produces, but doesn't direct this one. And there are a couple differences between this and the other two. First of all, the sex scenes and degree of nudity is a bit more explicit. Second, and much to this film's detriment, save for one woman, the ladies of Sechs Schwedinnen auf Ibiza are about five notches below the caliber of the women in the other films.

One common theme it does have, is a semi-non-existent and uneventful story. Everything is a setup for a sex scene, when needed, that is. Sometimes it just happens. So, six Swedish broads go on vacation on a ship to Ibiza, and one leaves behind a case with all their passports and money (and make-up), distracted by a sexual encounter. They are all taken in by a bi-sexual black islander, and, er, some of them get jobs. That's about it. SPOILER: They get the case back, and everyone in the movie gets involved in a pirate ship orgy.

The Full Moon DVD has an interesting extra. If you click on "original trailer," you get an eyeful. Included is the German 81-minute hardcore version. Maybe this is what scared off some of the foxier ladies. Presented in full frame, and with no sound, hey, at least it's a curiosity.
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6/10
Those were the days
adrian-1524 May 2009
What happens when six carefree young girls arrive at Ibiza, having lost all their money on the boat? They have to get a part-time job! And guess what these carefree girls do to get that job as quickly as possible? Of course! They have sex with hairy early-eighties men! In full pornographic detail! Throw in a few travelogue images of Ibiza, and you have a movie!

To some degree, the movie has that typical air of exploitation films of the seventies and early eighties, that is also found in the Black Emmanuelle films by Joe d'Amato and Jess Franco: seemingly oblivious of how politically incorrect it all is. An attempted rape turns into a'love' scene, for example. Nevertheless, one cannot resist a feeling of nostalgia, if only for sex films that do not feature surgically enhanced Barbie dolls.

The version of 6 Schwedinnen I saw is the uncut 83 minute letter-boxed (approx. 1.66:1) XXX version issued by Ascot Elite entertainment on DVD, with German and French sound. Image quality is a bit erratic with scratches and a few missing frames, but that only enhances the feeling of nostalgia. Somehow, a digitally cleaned-up anamorphic version would have been weird.

As most actors are French, the German version is a dubbed one, obviously produced especially for the millions of Germans who saw these types of films at their local cinemas. Indeed, those were the days.
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