Van de Velde: Die vollkommene Ehe

Though IMDb lists this in the "Adult" (hardcore sex) category, THE IDEAL MARRIAGE is at the R-rated level in its presentation of uninteresting case history-style material.

The shill writing notes for Something Weird Video calls it a Dutch film, but it is German all the way -production, casting and dialog. Van de Velde of the title was a Dutch author, who penned the marriage manual in question back in 1926.

We're shown a series of dumb vignettes, amounting in content to the format of the "Love American Style" series of a couple years later, but German. A U.S. professor serves as our white coat host.

Perhaps the only odd element is a family taking their little kids to watch horses mating on a farm -they find this a natural process of maturation but I daresay it would still offend on American shores. Similarly, an eight year old girl bathing with her old daddy in the bathtub is another paean to "natural behavior", but in an acted context like this one it is again suspect.

Some of the actresses are quite attractive, especially a busty girl who's frustrated because hubby only wants to watch TV. Overall this is dull soft porn pretending to be educational. The crude diagrams showing male and female private parts (external and internal) hardly constitute hardcore content by any definition.