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Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

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Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

Inga (1968) [Collector's Edition]
A Film by Joseph W. Sarno
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 01:20:41 (each version) | 7,84 Gb
Two versions: 1st - English dub w/o subs and 2nd - Swedish with English hardsubs
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sexploitation

Former ballerina Marie Liljedahl became an international sex symbol after this provocative exploitation film from director Joe Sarno. Liljedahl stars as Inga, a studious virgin who goes to stay with her 32-year old Aunt Greta (Monica Strommerstedt) at her home in Stockholm. The nubile Inga's presence disrupts the household, stirring trouble with Greta's kept boytoy Karl and her secret admirer Einar. Although melodramatic and trite, the film did a great deal of box-office business due to its steamy content and the frequent sexual activity of its beautiful young star.

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Inga was daring stuff when it reached American audiences in 1968. Nudity, masturbation, lesbianism, copulation – it's all here, in abundance and dressed up like a coming-of-age fable. But by today's standards – and you can thank groundbreaking films such as Inga for lowering those standards – Inga is pretty tame stuff. The sex is off camera – sometimes only just so, as when the embracing actors fall to the floor and the camera tilts up – and except for one explicit, prolonged and convincing masturbation scene, there's little that would prevent this from getting a hard R rating these days. Still, as a historic artifact, Inga is essential; as filmmaking, well, you have to overlook the low budget, the sparse sets, the literal acting, and the jarring jump cuts (typical of the '60s) in order to enjoy Marie Liljedahl's deer-in-the-headlights performance.
Buzz McClain, Rovi
Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

In contemporary Sweden, Greta a thirty-something woman is attending a party with her boyfriend Karl. He is a writer, working on a project but not earning any money, instead he lives off Greta for all his expenses. Greta meets and old friend Einar, whom her mother used to babysit. He is now very successful and wealthy but his disabled wife has left him without a suitable escort for formal events and Einar's sister Sigrid suggests that if Greta becomes his mistress that she could support her financially. Einar however has eyes for much younger woman and when Greta's young virginal niece Inga (Marie Liljedahl) arrives to live with her, she sees a chance to secure the promise of a steady income from Sigrid…

Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

In the opening a young woman at a party of twenty-somethings is outed as a virgin by a mock court and 'sentenced' to be publically deflowered. Is it a warning for parents to lock up their daughters or are we supposed to be aroused? The film takes a firmly neutral standpoint on this issue and throughout the film with a number of emotive issues being raised, most notably adultery and infidelity, the script remains surprisingly impassive, never forcing any characters to emerge as the good or the bad. Instead we have to form our own judgements as you would when meeting people in a real social circle. This is most evident with Karl who on first impressions seems to be leaching off Greta and whose temptation to cheat on her comes off as particularly unpleasant. As the film progresses it becomes clear that Greta is the one who needs Karl and our perspectives of all the characters change dramatically.

Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

Inga was not originally to be the script's main focus, it was only after European audience's extremely positive reactions to Liljedahl's performance that the focus of the American promotion was focused on the character - as a result Inga does not arrive into the story proper until the half-way mark which does allows the script time to develop the other characters and their relationships but has the side effect of forshortening the coming-of-age of Inga's character which has enough potential to fill out the whole film, but has to be compressed into a much shorter space of time. The film as a whole runs to just 80 minutes and as a result is always well paced, culminating in a very neat ending. While the presence of sex scenes in the film was enough to see it pushed as a raunchy production in the States, the film seems to be less an attempt to make a blue movie than a realistic drama that contains realistic sexual scenes. The nude scenes never come across as gratuitous although they are certainly not dull and Inga's masturbation sequence is genuinely erotic.

Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

American director Joe Sarno had worked on a number of early sexploitation films, incorporating sex and nudity into detailed soap-opera storylines, partly to allow them to be shown into the US which had strict censorship laws at the time but also out of a prefence for realistic situations rather than endless sex scenes. Sarno shot Inga, like most of his film from the period, in black and white and his direction as a whole is nothing too impressive but always solid and does incorporate some beautiful framing in a few scenes. The sex scenes themselves are often shot in unusually tight close-up which does serve to make them seem very intimate but might well be a side effect of censorship concerns. The soundtrack is a very varied mix of contemporary dance music and an effective background score.

Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

Just seventeen when the movie was filmed, Marie Liljedahl was making her first real cinematic appearance but does some very good work throughout, both in the acting and the sex scenes - her very young looking innocent appearance is simply perfect for the role and it is easy to believe that she is as naive as her character at the start of the film. The rest of the cast consist of some experienced actors and some who have no other filmic credits, but the acting is generally strong.

With the film boasting a number of sexual scenes and starring the gorgeous Marie Liljedahl, Inga, like many of Joe Sarno's films has understandably but quite incorrectly been labeled as a pornographic film, with the result that many viewers are left disappointed by the lengthy dialogue scenes and quite sparse nudity. Inga would be much better classified as a well balanced drama piece in which sex and sexual development, as in real life, often has a key role to play but is far from the only factor present. The clever and unpredictable little script is well served by some solid direction and the beautiful Liljedahl in the title role. Recommended.
Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

Joseph Sarno, the name should ring a bell for those of you interested in sexploitation cinema, directed the box office smash Inga in 1968. The film was a huge success both in Sweden, where it’s filmed, and internationally. Starring the beautiful Marie Liljedahl in her first, and perhaps most memorable role, as the beautiful young virgin Inga. The film may seem as just another sex film from a decade when they were in bundles, but Inga is much more than that. Using heavy elements of drama, Sarno creates a hauntingly beautiful and deeply erotic look at the “free love” generation of the 60s. Sarno tells a very compelling story with steady direction and the pacing throughout the film is excellent. The scenery in the film is very beautiful, whether its downtown Stockholm or in the luxury middle class houses of the characters. The acting in the film is very good, and both Liljedahl as Inga and Monica Strommerstedt as her aunt are great in their roles. The soundtrack in the film by Clay Pitts is really just amazing, and features some really catchy rock tunes and some more emotional, slow pieces that just incorporate itself in the film brilliantly. Inga is perhaps not as shocking today as it was for audiences in the 60s, nevertheless it still remains an important part in the history of erotic cinema. If you want to see a really good sex film from the early sixties you need to see Inga, a powerful piece of sexploitation and a significant piece of motion picture history. Highly recommended!!
Patrick, excerpt from Repulsive Cinema
Jag - en oskuld (1968) [Collector's Edition] [ReUp]

The disc includes:
- Swedish version of the film. A separate video file includes the entire film in Swedish. The films run the same length and there do not seem to be any differences in editing, some dialogue is changed slightly, but not changing the story at all. Picture quality is a little more grainy but still watchable. Includes burnt-in English subs - they are white and can be sometimes hard to make out properly.
- Audio commentary with Joe Sarno, his wife Peggy (who was involved heavily in the film), producer Sam Sherman and moderated by Bruce Hollenbeck. Slow in paces but with a lot of interesting information.
- Two theatrical trailers, both emphasising the sex scenes.
- An interview with Marie Liljedahl - audio only, asks some interesting questions about her involvement with this film, but leaves many interesting questions unanswered. (10 minutes).
- "Outtakes" - extra footage of the dancing party scenes and what seems to be an alternate take of the shower scene (although it looks identical to that in the final film). A curio. (10 minutes)
- Trailers for other Retro-seduction releases: 2069: A Sexy Odyssey, Naughty Stewardesses, Female Animal, Masters Plaything, Seduction of Inga, I Like Girls Who Do and Possession of Nurse Sherri.
- Trailers for other modern Seduction Cinema projects: Misty Mundae: Mummy Raider, Erotic Vampire in Paris, Gladiator Eroticvs, Erotic Survivor 2, Vampire Obsession, Erotic Mirror and Sexy 6th Sense.
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