Jun 13, 2023

Prostitution Today (1970)

 

(Original Title: Prostitution heute) A Schulmädchen-Report film chronicling prostitution in various German cities.



Our exposé begins in Düsseldorf on a street lined with prostitutes

The reporter interviews one of the whores getting a condom


Therese works with another whore (Melitta Tegeler) in her apartment


The reporter asks how she got into this business.  It all started when she was shopping

Therese saw so many things she couldn't afford.  She needed extra money.

So, Therese met with a madame who ushered her into the business of prostitution

But it didn't take long before Therese was arrested

She ended up in the same bad situation as a lineup of a dozen other whores

Finally it's her turn for the medical exam


Suffice it to say, STDs are a danger for prostitutes on the streets of Düsseldorf

Now we go to Frankfurt where we meet Ms. Krüger (Marlene Rahn) servicing a customer





In Hannover we meet Gerti Witt (Yvonne Ten Hoff)

The other prostitutes don't much appreciate Gerti's unauthorized presence on their territory

In broad daylight the hookers beat the shit out of Gerti



In Hamburg we watch a live performance


A classy nightclub hooker


This Hamburg whore has to be spanked


A crime scene in Duisburg

A dead prostitute is found 



The police commissioner (Günther Kieslich) talks to the dead hooker's pimp

In the flashback we see what actually happened; the soon-to-be-dead hooker is confronted by her pimp.






A lingerie salesman presents his wares to a brothel

All manner of funny business going on in this establishment


In Munich we meet a nude model




The model's friend presents her with the idea of earning some extra dough by taking things a step further.

The model considers it

They put on a show for voyeurs, and service clients 


Anabell (Karin Glier) runs a massage parlor



Lisa K. (Ursula Heyer) is an international call girl


It seems she gets blackmail and whatnot from important people


Back when you could smoke on a plane

A can actually remember the ashtrays on the armrests

In Berlin we find nude performance art where three ladies pose and the audience draws them. Frieda (Evelyne Traeger) is on the right.


Frieda doesn't know it but she has an obsessed fan in the audience (Gert Haucke)


Frieda doesn't realized she's being followed

Frieda hangs out with her roommate, a cab driver.

She comes face to face with the psychopath

He stabs her to death

THE END



We're in the very early years of the Schulmädchen-Report film, so it's delivered with the utmost sincerity; not even a wink to let us know they know this "documentary" is just a flimsy excuse to show sex and nudity.  The trouble with keeping up pretenses is that it doesn't allow things to get too over the top, or to let the sexploitation elements run amok (as later Schulmädchen-Report film tended to do - to everyone's delight),  

★★★★☆5/10

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