Emanuelle: Black Velvet [Blu-ray]

Director: Brunello Rondi Brunello Rondi

Overview

Like the cannibal films which followed, the Italian Black Emanuelle series (which, in fact, includes Emanuelle e gli Ultimi Cannibali) contains a very strong subtext of decadent Europeans oppressing other cultures. In many cases, as here, the instrument of oppression is the camera itself, and viewers of most Italian shock documentaries from Mondo Cane to Africa Addio probably didn't need a fictional softcore sex film to tell them that. The story line brings Emanuelle/Laura (Laura Gemser) back, but significantly as a model rather than her usual profession of journalist or photographer. The real shutterbug is Laura's sadistic boyfriend, Carlo (Gemser's real-life husband Gabriele Tinti), who stays with Laura at a fancy Nile River villa owned by pretty Crista (Nieves Navarro under her usual "Susan Scott" pseudonym). Various sexual intrigues ensue, involving Crista's daughters, a mute Arab servant, and Carlo's creepy habit of photographing Laura amidst backgrounds reeking of death and horror. There's also a wealthy gay pedophile (Feodor Chaliapin) and a goat sacrifice, but it's all really an excuse for Gemser to roll around naked in the sand with Annie Belle in one of the more memorable lesbian sequences in Italian exploitation. Fairly well directed by Brunello Rondi, the film was adapted from a story by another well-known exploitation director, Ferdinando Baldi, and edited by a third, Bruno Mattei.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/06/2021
UPC:	0850019903447
Original Release:	1976
Source:	Full Moon Pictures
Language:	English
Time:	1:33:00
Sales rank:	25,252

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Laura Gemser	Actor
Annie Belle	Actor
Gabriele Tinti	Actor
Theodore Chaliapin	Actor
Ziggy Zanger	Actor
Al Cliver	Actor
Susan Scott	Actor

Technical Credits

Brunello Rondi

Brunello Rondi

Screenwriter,Director