Stepping Out

The female desire for sex is the subject of this documentary by Eva Heldmann. It documents a woman and her quest for sex in clubs and U.S. army barracks in Germany. However when troops were withdrawn, bang went the supply of GIs. The candid openness with which a German academic talks about her sexual drive, pleasures and frolics with black GIs, turns the world of a male dominated army barracks on its head. The film also documents a particular topography, which disappeared with the departure of the American Army from the region around Frankfurt: shopping, housing areas, and fast food restaurants, where you paid with dollars and the clubs were full.

Keywords

  • Love+: Sexuality
  • Made in Germany
  • desire
  • erotic
  • the edge
  • women

Actors

  • Annette B.
  • Dorothea Etzler
  • Aaron A. Gibbs
  • Keith Smith

Director

  • Eva C. Heldmann

Documentary, Love & Sex


1h 1min


16 FSK

DE


EN

Germany
1999
This documentary accompanies a woman on her erotic expeditions through clubs and barracks of the US Army in Frankfurt am Main.

This documentary accompanies a woman on her erotic expeditions through clubs and barracks of the US Army in Frankfurt am Main.


The female desire for sex is the subject of this documentary by Eva Heldmann. It documents a woman and her quest for sex in clubs and U.S. army barracks in Germany. However when troops were withdrawn, bang went the supply of GIs.


The candid openness with which a German academic talks about her sexual drive, pleasures and frolics with black GIs, turns the world of a male dominated army barracks on its head.


The film also documents a particular topography, which disappeared with the departure of the American Army from the region around Frankfurt: shopping, housing areas, and fast food restaurants, where you paid with dollars and the clubs were full.

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