Movie Review: Love Bavarian Style (Geh, zieh dein Dirndl aus)

Geh, zieh dein Dirndl aus a.k.a Black Leather Pants a.k.a Love Bavarian Style a.k.a Make Them Yodel, Baby a.k.a Pannaanpa jodlaten (Finnish title)
Constantin Film, Lisa-Film, West Germany, 1973.

Toni (Jürgen Schilling) is the super stud of the small Alpine village. New mistress of the farm Gisela (Elisabeth Volkmann) has a very strict morale. Farmgirl Zenzi (Marie Ekorre) walks around without pants and therefore the farm has always the best hired men. Boss of the farmhands Hias (Alexander Grill) must keep the debauchery on the farm hidden from Gisela. Florian (Willy Harlander) wants to buy the farm back so he and his farmer friends (Willy Schultes and Max Grießer) must first get rid of Zensi to disperse the farmhands. They need an Italian Casanova to seduce her.

Hias and Gisela

Zenzi and Toni

Florian and barmaid Resi (Dorothea Rau)

Toni churns butter with Zenzi using his mighty plunger (it is a dairy farm after all). Toni's other girlfriend Rosl (Elisabeth Felchner) tries to win Toni back. Another ladies' man stuttering farmhand Sepp (Walter Klinger) tries to seduce Rosl but in the dark ends up with with her mother (Doris Delaas).

Gisella with Toni and Sepp

Rosl and Sepp

Rosl's mother

Italian gold digger Vittorio Parmesano (Rinaldo Talamonti) pretends to be gay so he can chaperone Count Traverso's (Ulrich Beiger) daughters Gina (Maja Hoppe) and the other daughter in Germany. The plan backfires as his chauffeur Mario (Werner Röglin) falls in love with him. Vittorio does his best to evade Mario. Florian tries to get Vittorio to seduce Zenzi.

Vittorio Parmesano

Mario

Giselle's scientist brother Heino (Michael Hinz) arrives to the farm with his fiancee Lore (Juliane Rom). Nerdy Heino is clueless about women and even more clueless with driving tractor. After a series of amusing events everyone gets some.

Heino and Lore

Zenzi's Lederhosen

Gisela's hay fashion

This is one of the most famous Lederhosen- sex comedies and enjoys cult reputation. The humour is lowbrow and the tone stays carefree whole time. Mostly the plot is about softcore sex in funny situations. The jokes are stupid enough to raise some laughs. There is also a fair share of Benny Hill- chases, Oktoberfest partying and polka. It can not be said well filmed or a good film but it has nostalgic Euro-trash feel with certain innocence of nudie comedies before more hardcore films took over the genre.

Polka party!

What the priest saw?

This movie was also notable as it caused Finnish director Markku Pölönen (Finnish link) to cancel his plans of clerical career and pursue career as film director.

Part of The 2016 Movie Watching Challenge (#42. Movie you feel a bit ashamed to watch)

Rating: Average

Starring: Elisabeth Volkmann, Alexander Grill, Marie Ekorre, Rinaldo Talamonti, Raoul Retzer, Dorothea Rau, Maja Hoppe, Elisabeth Felchner, Jürgen Schilling, Juliane Rom-Sock, Walter Klinger, Ulrich Beiger, Werner Röglin, Erich Kleiber, Doris Delaas, Anne Graf, Max Grießer, Willy Harlander, Michael Hinz, Ruth Küllenberg, Thomas Reiner, Willy Schultes
Director: Sigi Rothemund (as Siggi Götz)