Anita - ur en tonårsflickas dagbok (1973)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Torgny Wickman

Writer:

Torgny Wickman (writer)

Release Date:

25 December 1973 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

a true report of a 16 year old nymphomaniac's behaviour

Plot:

Anita is a girl of only 16 years, and while she has developed early physically, to a mature woman, she is psychologically completly ruthless...

Plot Keywords:

Student | Psychology Student | Shower Scene | Leg Spreading | Voyeurism

Cast

Christina Lindberg	...	Anita
Stellan Skarsgård	...	Erik
Danièle Vlaminck	...	The Mother
Michel David	...	The Father
Per Mattsson	...	Artist
Ewert Granholm	...	Glasier
Arne Ragneborn	...	Man at Library
Jörgen Barwe	...	Lundbaeck, professor
Ericka Wickman	...	Anitas twin-sister
Berit Agedal	...	The lesbian social-worker
Jan-Olof Rydqvist	...	Schoolteacher
Thore Segelström	...	Schoolteatcher
Lasse Lundberg	...	Man at trainstation

Also Known As:

Anita
Anita: Swedish Nymphet (USA)
Anita: The Shocking Account of a Young Nymphomaniac (USA) (DVD title)
Les impures (France)
Swedish Nymphet

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Sweden | France

Language:

Swedish

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 (cut) | USA:X (self-applied) | New Zealand:(Banned) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | Norway:(Banned) (1974-2003) (cinema release) (cut version)

Filming Locations:

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Alpha France

Christina Lindberg as nymphomaniac--Anita cold shower!

People debate today whether there really is such a thing as nymphomania, or if it was just a term pinned on women who tried to lead a naturally healthy sex life back in much more repressive, Victorian times when such a thing was not permissible. One thing's for sure though , if this particular movie is based on a real story as it claims to be, this girl definitely had a serious problem. The girl in this movie (played by Cristina Lindberg) , will sleep with anybody, and I do mean ANYBODY. This turns her into a social outcast (because of course, nobody likes a beautiful girl who wants to have sex all the time). She's like a junkie in her compulsion, begging for the key to a friend's apartment so she can have quickies with unattractive businessmen she picks up at the train station. And when one kindly elderly guy tries to console her after an unsatisfying sexual encounter, she drops to her knees to give him the b.j. of his life.

All this is treated in a very serious, at times almost depressing manner, and Lindberg gives a very earnest performance. Since I doubt too many people then or now watched this movie out of concern for the social problem of nymphomania (more likely they wanted to know where they could find a girl like this), this move and Lindberg's performance may seem pretty campy. I have to say though I'd much rather see a movie like this that sets out to be somewhat serious and falls into camp than a movie that aims at camp and falls flat on its face. And though Lindberg will never be mentioned in the same breath as Greta Garbo, her overly seriously performance here is infinitely better than most modern-day "cult actresses" and "scream queens" camping and mugging their way through movies that they (very erroneously) consider beneath their talents.

In any case, campy or not, this movie definitely succeeds as exploitation thanks to Lindberg doffing her duds every five minutes or so. If you've never seen Cristina Lindberg, she's kind of like really sexy mutant or mythical beast--she has the face of an innocent teenage Swedish schoolgirl attached to the body of a voluptuous burlesque-era stripper (which is not at all to say that her appeal is limited to those who dig schoolgirls or burlesque strippers). Her most memorable scene here is where she and her goody-good twin sister are singing for their parents' friends and she turns the occasion into an impromptu full-monty striptease. And if you are a fan of Lindberg, or become one after this movie, also check her out in "Thriller--a Cruel Picture" (a favorite of Quentin Tarantino), her first film "Maid in Sweden", the German "schulmadchen report" films in which she was a regular, and the unbelievably depraved film "Depraved" (sadly unavailable in English). She's almost always worth the price of admission all by herself.