Me - the one that about the features of the Sovietepoch knows only from the stories of parents, from old films and lessons of history, it is very difficult to understand why the film The Greek Fig Tree was so popular.
The plot of the film "Greek Fig" prettyunpretentious. Young German student Patricia comes on vacation to her parents in Greece. When the holidays end and the girl is going to return to Germany, she meets a couple in love with a single ticket at the airport. The main character, without thinking twice, makes a decision to give her ticket to the young man, while she hitchhikers.
No sooner said than done.Adventure. Traveling by hitchhiking, she meets different people, simultaneously voicing and recording her thoughts, impressions on the recorder. At the same time, the main character, passionately desiring to experience new impressions, including sexual ones, does not deny herself the pleasure of participating in savory experiments. After passing through fire, water and copper pipes, she unexpectedly falls for herself for the first time in love for the first time with the really attractive American correspondent of Tom, part owner of the yacht. To attract the attention of a young man turned out after Patricia shocked him naked. Further events develop according to all the laws of the genre: quarrels, disputes, quarrels, and then certainly a happy ending under the rays of the hot sun.
So what is the secret? And there is no secret!
German erotic comedy / melodramaThe Greek Fig Tree, also known as the Fruit Is Ripened, shocked the public back in 1976. At that time, she was really exotic, provocative, piquant. The picture was shot very beautifully, accompanied by beautiful Greek music, including Sirtaki, crammed with nude. For the restrained citizens of the USSR, she was a sip of someone else's forbidden life, a real temptation. But why the law-enforcement agencies arrested people for showing it, presenting such an accusation as “distributing pornography”, I cannot understand. Pornography in the film and does not smell. Also puzzling is the question of why the Greek Fig Tree-2 did not appear? Or did Ziggy Goetz forget how to make pictures of this kind? Or not enough funding? And it’s a pity, such inspirational films to the majority of ordinary people to build, help and live, and unobtrusively improve the demographic situation.
Greetings from the past, or Nostalgia for the era of the USSR
Many will disagree with me, but I dareto assert that if the movie “The Greek Fig Tree” was released for hire at the present time, it would hardly have caused any stir. The tape looks pale in comparison with modern blockbusters not only in terms of the quality of shooting and special effects, but also in plot intrigue. But to all those who lived behind the “iron curtain”, never forget this picture and the seductive smile of a relaxed and sexy female lead star Betty Verges.
