Julia (German: Es war nicht die Nachtigall) is a 1974 erotic drama film from West Germany starring Sylvia Kristel.

It was released in France in 1975 and recorded admissions of 403,892.[1] It is also known as Summer Girl.

Plot:

Pauli is a sexually frustrated young man who's surrounded by sexually liberated women who will not give him the time of day. He meets a beautiful virgin woman, Andrea, who strongly resists his charms, which compounds his frustrations. It's summer, and the air is quivering with passion, as teenager Pauli, who stays at boarding school travels to a small seaside town to enjoy the holidays with his family. On the train he gets to know the attractive woman, in whose compartment he sits down immediately after he has risked a glimpse into the section of the sleeping beauty. A little later, she vanishes and has sex with a stranger on the train toilet. He is thunderstruck at the train station when his father picks up not only him but also her. The unfaithful blonde, Yvonne is obviously the mistress of his own father. The mood in the villa is heated up from the beginning sexually: His womanizer father and sexy Yvonne, a crazy grandmother, Mimi, a cuckolded uncle, Alex his oversexed lesbian wife, Myriam and the lesbian maid, Silvana. Soon he meets his old neighbor Julia, who turns out to be an 18-year-old beauty. Like Pauli, she is still a virgin, but perhaps this summer, when they both lose their innocence, will be to each other. But there are several who are looking for the young beauty. Not least Pauli's own father.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in the summer of 1974, in Verona, and on Lake Wörthersee, Austria and released on 1974-11-28.[2]

German title

The German title "It Was Not the Nightingale" is a allusion to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5:
Juliet: Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.[3]

Sylvia Kristel recreates the balcony scene during the visit to Verona.

References

  1. ^ Sylvia Kristel French box office information[permanent dead link‍] at Box Office Story
  2. ^ "Es war nicht die Nachtigall..." filmportal.de. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 5". LitCharts. Retrieved 16 April 2022.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(1974_film)
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