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4/10
Dwarves, Witches, Princes.....and LOTS of RANDOM NUDITY!!!!!
oznickolaus13 February 2003
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SPOILER ALERT!!!!! Several weeks ago I watched an "adult" version of the famous "Snow White" story, entitled "Biancaneve & Co." (1982). It turned out to be the WORST movie I have ever sat through. By the time it finished, not only had my mind shut down for fear of turning to mush, but my retinas ACTUALLY HURT!!!! So, when I had the opportunity to buy a copy of "Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen" (better known as "Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults") (1969), I was a more than a little apprehensive. I enjoy adding different verions of Snow White to my collection, but I didn't think my brain, or my eyes, could take anymore Euro-trash sex versions.

I threw caution to the wind and bought the darn thing anyway.....

"Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen" is the story of two village idiots, named Hans and Hans, who through a series of absurd mishaps become a slight part of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. While the three princess tales play out around them, the two Hans' spend the movie trading their prized possession (whatever it happens to be at that moment) for something of lesser value. They start out with a HUGE rock of gold, then trade to a horse, then to a cow, then to a duck and finally to two rocks, which they lose down a well. Not the smartest guys in the "Magic Kingdom", these two serve as our link to the three fairytales about to unfold.

Being the "fairest in the land", Snow White's vain stepmother decides to have the waif gutted in the woods by the castle huntsman. In the chase that ensues, the huntsman manages to rip Snow's TINY dress off her body, revealing a VERY uncomfortable, jewel encrusted, g-sting and pasties and loses her in the dark forest. Rather than face the rage of the Queen, who is also now topless (???), he kills some random animal and brings it's heart back to his mistress...which she quickly gobbles up. Raw.

Back in the woods, Snow White is still running for her life, as each woodlyn animal she meets wants to ravish her. First a wolf, then a bear, then a frog and finally a very phallic snake....all of whom are wearing little tiny gold crowns. Very charming indeed.

Passed out from exhaustion, and completely exposing her bare breasts, Snow finally sleeps off her hectic day on the forest floor. Suddenly, and without warning, seven GIANT mushrooms appear and magically turn into, you guessed it, the Seven Dwarfs. Snow wakes up just in time to see them heading off to their cave homes and quickly follows.

Without sharing this with the viewer, Snow and the seven guys decide to set up house together, as the familiar story goes. When we next see her, Snow is hanging little hankies out to dry on a clothesline...and still wearing nothing but the pasties and g-string. It's at this point that Hans and Hans come by with their cow. Not sure what to with it, Snow White tries to explain the concept of milking it, by getting underneath the animal and SUCKING on one of it's udders! The two Hans' follow suit and freak out the poor cow (not to mention the veiwer!) and and causing it to take off running. I mean, wouldn't you?!? During this little "nursing" session, the evil Queen, who has discovered that Snow White still lives, has managed to slip a poisoned comb and mirror on the rock where Snow was doing laundry. The naked princess finds the items, uses them and passes out from the poison.

A short while later, the Dwarfs, who still haven't spoken a word, find their new royal maid unconscious and run off to their rooms to get something to revive her. They return with small pots of greasepaint and proceed to rub it all over her nubile young body (?!?) which in turn wakes the girl up. The next day....

The evil Queen has again found out the little princess lives and decides to visit a blue haired (literally) old witch in the woods. The witch spends her time turning naked young lovers into various animals and inprisoning them. Upon hearing the Queen's dilemma, the witch gives her a basket of poisoned apples, which the Queen promptly takes to Snow's hideout. Disguised and an old woman, the Queen literally tosses the STILL NAKED Snow White an apple as she passes by and dashes off into the woods, where she herself gets naked.

As usual, Snow eats, dies and is discovered by the dwarfs, only this time they can't wake her up by smearing "stuff" all over her body. Deciding that the girl is really dead this time, they stick her (very artisticly) in a glass coffin, and carry her around the countryside...for what seems like days!

FINALLY, a half naked handsome Prince comes along and by giving her a magic, VERY phallic flower, he wakes Snow White up and has sex with her.....which I guess means they lived happily ever after.

So ends the Snow White portion of this movie. As all three fairytales are happening at the same time, Hans and Hans move through the story helping each tale along. Sort of. Kind of. Well, not really.

The retellings of both Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are just a bizarre, and full of random nudity, as the Snow White one was.

Although I would only recommend watching this film if you are really drunk and haven't had a date in a LONG TIME, it was MUCH better than "Biancneve and Co.". At least with this one the weirdness kept your attention and didn't send your nervous system into a coma. Although the shock value of some of the scenes may be a bit much for some people.

Watch it at your own risk.....
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Surprisingly faithful "adult" version of classic fairy tales
lazarillo8 October 2007
An earlier reviewer did a pretty good job of summarizing this film, so I'll demur to him (especially since he obviously saw an English language copy of this, while I was stuck with a German one). What's most interesting about this is that it isn't simply a parody or a "perversion" of classic children's fairy tales like "Snow White", "Cinderella", and "Sleeping Beauty" as it is a re-telling of the original Grimm's Fairy tales, which are certainly not as overtly sexual as this movie, but are much more more disturbing and polymorphously perverse than the Disney-fied version we're all used to today.

This movie has a strange bestiality sub-theme. The "Snow White" character, for instance, is nearly raped by a bear (who "Sleeping Beauty" later discovers to be an enchanted prince) in a scene that prefigures Walerian Borozyx later notorious film "The Beast". This connection between animals, women, and sex is present in the original Grimm's Fairy Tales, however, just in a less explicit form. Then there's gruesome scenes like when Cinderella's step-sisters abandon her in the woods and she's raped and nearly killed by bandits, but saved by a kindly(?) witch who tricks the bandits by substituting human body parts from her stew for the girl. If this isn't from a Grimm's Fairy Tale, it's definitely in the spirit of one(aside, of course, from the pretty graphic rape scene). This is also the only version of "Cinderella" I've seen that remains true to the original text by having the wicked step-sisters cut off parts of their own feet in an effort to fit into the glass slipper!

Of course, this movie also makes plenty of concessions to more modern-day sexploitation. It has an idiot "comedy" duo bumbling around throughout all the inter-connected stories messing everything up. The pair both kiss "Sleeping Beauty" at the same time which somehow turns her into a raving nymphomaniac, but then no one, including (initially) the bear, will have sex with her (which is quite ridiculous as she is beautiful and practically naked). Then there's "Snow White" who for some reason is dressed in little more than a g-string in most of her scenes (but since she's played by luscious Swedish actress Marie Llijedahl I'm sure nobody will complain). Her seven dwarfs at one point revive her by smearing paint on her bare breasts, and the prince finally breaks her enchantment by doing more than just kissing her. There's also the most notorious scene where Llijedahl orally milks a cow, which is either obscene or very perverse (or perhaps completely innocent if you grew up as a Swedish farm girl). Even the most faithful story, "Cinderella" includes some full-frontal nudity and a racy catfight.

This movie is obviously "for adults" as the English-language title says, but it's nevertheless more faithful to the source material than the Disney versions of these stories.
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3/10
Video nasty checklist
BandSAboutMovies19 September 2021
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Also known as The New Adventures of Snow White, this sex farce is part of the career downward trajectory of Rolf Thiele, who had once been a mainstream director, but increasingly found himself making lower-budget sex comedies. It's all about Snow White (Marie Liljedahl, who was Eugenie in Eugenie...The Story of Her Journey into Perversion), Cinderella (Eva Rueber-Staier, who was General Gogol's assistant Rublevitch in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy) and Sleeping Beauty having a series of adult adventures.

There's also a dude in a bear suit.

As for the evil queen, she's played by Ingrid van Bergen, who famously shot her lover dead in 1977 and was released five years later to continue being a star. She also was in the Edgar Wallace adaption The Avenger and The Vampire Happening.

A section 3 video nasty, this is a pretty tame film other than the scene where one of Cinderella's wicked stepsisters literally slices her heel off to fit it into the glass slipper. Wow. That even took me a second to get over. Well done, silly sex comedy from 1969.
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7/10
Three classic tales, quite literally Exposed!
TVM-Liveforever22 May 2015
Essentially this is a far more adult retelling of the classic fairy tales- Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, with some "slight" deviations- the wicked queen eats Snow White's supposed lady bits, Sleeping Beauty needs a lot more than a kiss to "fully" awaken and Cinderella's evil stepsisters actually cut off parts of there feet.

Well what can be said about this, a strange mix of nudity, sex, comedy and some very mild gore, however what comes over far more is the light moments, its actually quite funny at times. The story follows two brothers going through the forest, they first find Snow White, then stumble into what appears to be an orgy where everyone's out cold including Sleeping Beauty herself and finally Cinderella. The story zips along at a fair old pace with each situation becoming more outrageous and ridiculous as it goes, from animals trying to get it on with Ms White to her and the brothers sucking on a cows udders (its a very bizarre scene). Usually acting, direction, writing and all other technical aspects of a film would be up for review but in such a picture to look to seriously at such a film would be pointless and frankly stupid, because all of its absurdities add to the charm of it all.

Unbelievably the Director Of Public Prosecutions here in the UK decided in its "wisdom" that this totally harmless film should be added to the Section 3 nasty list, meaning it could be seized by the police as obscene, because of violence not sex or nudity shockingly, shamefully ridiculous. It's a fun, silly little film that entertains through its bizarre story and set-pieces, although certainly not for all tastes, but if cult audiences take it for what it is go along for the ride and they'll be thoroughly entertained.
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8/10
Adult on many levels
SMK-49 June 2000
This film must be one of the earliest examples of combining classical Fairy Tales with (soft) pornography. Several of the classic fairy tales of the Brother's Grimm (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, and a few others) have been mixed together to create a very unusual picture.

The film is 'adult' on many levels - obviously, there is a fair amount of sex and nudity; the humour is rather dark, ironic and cynical; and we also get to see a Cinderella version in which the step-sisters do cut their toes off (as they do in the original story if I recall it correctly).

In a strange way this mix works rather well - and after a couple of days since I watched it I still cannot get the catchy theme tune out of my head.
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