Van Batenburg is kindly received, but when asked if the film will look like the famous Emmanuelle film, he has to answer in the negative. What can he do with 75 grand against several million. Yet they tried it at the most exclusive brothel in the Amsterdam, Yab Yum. It is located in a high canal house, so space would not be an issue. ‘Due to the modest budget, Amsterdam was an impossible task, especially if you’re talking about a porn movie’, explains Van Batenburg in his memoires. Large, to make filming easier and to have sleeping and storage options. Detached in connection with the assumed status and financial position of the residents and furthermore because of the absence of prying eyes. Prying Eyesīefore the filmmakers ended up with the Land van Maas en Waal as a location, a whole search had already been completed. They were looking for a large detached house. a production time of 12 days (7 original and 5 additional) and was shot in various places in the Land of Maas and Waal, including the town of Batenburg (hence the director’s pseudonym) and inside the former villa of super criminal and master of the thermal lance Aage Meinesz in Altforst. The film started with a budget of 50.000,- guilders, ending up through different stages at 260.000,- (equivalent to approximately $500,000 converted to today). Original film poster ‘ Pruimenbloesem‘ (1982) (Translation promotional text ‘ The first Dutch adult sex movie‘) Bet with Paul VerhoevenĪ nice anecdote about this debut was that Van Batenburg received a letter from another Dutch filmmaker Wim Verstappen (with whom he remained friends until his death) in which he told him that he had a bet with Paul Verhoeven ( Basic Instinct) about who would be the first to include a pornographic scene in his film and that he, Van Batenburg, had beaten them with Pruimenbloesem. Van Batenburg is one of the great pioneers of adult cinema (he worked part-time as a manager in an first action, later adult movie theater) in the Netherlands. Among other things, he is responsible for the first full-length porn film in Dutch movie theaters entitled Pruimenbloesem (Plum Blossom – 1982 ) that became one of the biggest box-office hits of 1982 with no fewer than 200,000 visitors.įig.1. 200,000 VisitorsĮarlier this year we were approached by the now retired filmmaker Willem van Batenburg (1941, Utrecht) who responded enthusiastically to our activities at Shunga Gallery. ![]() In contrast to the savage events in this film, things were much more relaxed on the set of the film we’re going to extensively examine below. In 1997, American director Paul Thomas Anderson gave us an original insight into the American porn industry of the 1970s with his film Boogie Nights, a tale that displays a freewheeling homage to the glitter, tack and kitsch excesses of the drug-fuelled late ’70s and the hangover ’80s.
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