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1988

Die Venusfalle

Directed by Robert van Ackeren

Synopsis

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ...

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Cast

Myriem Roussel Sonja Kirchberger Hanns Zischler Rolf Zacher Herb Andress Harry Baer Christiane Maybach Renate Muhri Ellen Umlauf Horst-Günter Marx Renate Langer Alena Penz Evelyn Rillé Evelyne Traeger Sabine Kückelmann Susanne Baeumer Walter Busch Carsta Van Deyck Anna Kindl Carmen Lentz Arthur Mayer Anke Reitzenstein Roland von Schulze Isabelle Schwanenberg Susanne Seuffert Wieland Speck Norbert Steinke Vincent Trazoff Olivia Wredenhagen Show All…

DirectorDirector

Robert van Ackeren

ProducersProducers

Theo Hinz Martin Moszkowicz Robert van Ackeren

WritersWriters

Catharina Zwerenz Robert van Ackeren

CastingCasting

Catharina Zwerenz

EditorEditor

Tanja Schmidbauer

CinematographyCinematography

Jürgen Jürges

LightingLighting

Karl Zepernick

Camera OperatorCamera Operator

Anton Klima

Production DesignProduction Design

Olaf Schiefner

ChoreographyChoreography

Hanne Weyh

ComposerComposer

Peer Raben

Costume DesignCostume Design

Regine Bätz

MakeupMakeup

Anuschka Abee Elke Pflips Axel Zornow

Studios

M+P Film Robert van Ackeren Filmproduktion ZDF

Country

Germany

Language

German

Alternative Titles

Venusfellen, Venusansa, Клопката на Венера, La trampa de Venus, Западня Венеры, La trappola di venere, 维纳斯陷阱, Venusfällan

Genre

Drama

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Theatrical

19 May 1988
  • The Venus Trap (1988) (3)France

08 Sep 1988
  • The Venus Trap (1988) (4)Germany16
  • The Venus Trap (1988) (5)USA

09 Sep 1988
  • The Venus Trap (1988) (6)France

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The Venus Trap (1988) (7)France
19 May 1988
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08 Sep 1988
  • Theatrical16
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08 Sep 1988
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  • Review by proofrock ★★½ 1

    My first Van Ackeren is this broad German equivalent of a 9 1/2 Weeks-style commercial eros, and a rotten romance with this terrible looking doctor named Max (Horst Günter Marx), who is horny on main almost to Fassbender/Shame levels of behavior. Max dials a wrong number and speaks to a woman he doesn’t know, so he makes it his mission to find her and fuck. At one point he runs up on an apartment building, hits every button on the intercom and announces to all the women that live there that he is downstairs and hard, and someone actually lets him in. Right before this, the movie almost turns intoCrash as he stages an auto accident to get the attention…

  • Review by Dirk Senger ★★½

    Van Ackerens Oberflächenerotik passt selbstverständlich tutti kompletti nach 1988, ist aber deswegen auch weitgehend öde. Nicht mal wirklich die Summe seiner Teile, denn da sind welche dabei, die die Rechnung nicht aufgehen lassen. Auch kommt das zu gestelzt daher. Kirchberger war zu der Zeit aber DER Eyecatcher und Roussel steht dem in nichts nach. Trotzdem zu deutsch und zu wenig versaut.

  • Review by megazord ★★★★

    Um encontro das errâncias do Quatro Noites de um Sonhador do Bresson em um universo do Fassbinder televisivo. Algures entre o sonho e o vazio, personagens que resolvem cotejar suas solidões e obsessões ao levá-las no limite que o corpo pode. Um encontro que pode durar uma noite ou uma vida inteira. Sem psicologizar qualquer personagem, há um retrato desse núcleo muito bem delineado justo por sua abstração. Tão destrutivo e elíptico quanto pode um O Medo do Medo, mas sem perder uma fina ironia que torna o desenlace uma das mais bonitas comédias de re-casamento que se pode ver depois dos anos 30.

  • Review by Margaret and David - At The Movies ★★½

    MARGARET: ★★½
    DAVID: ★★½

    Reviewed on The Movie Show, SBS, 1989. Review by David Stratton.

    Do you sometimes get the feeling that isn't as much sex in films as there used to be? Well, THE VENUS TRAP will fix all that; it's got sex to spare. It hasn't got much else, but it has got sex, and beautiful people who wear beautiful clothes - at least some of the time.

    The film is the latest from German director Robert van Ackeren who made A WOMAN IN FLAMES, and it's about a young Berlin Doctor (played by Horst-Günter Marx) who isn’t satisfied with his beautiful girlfriend (She's played by the spectacular Sonja Kirchberger), and you'd think she'd be enough to satisfy…

  • Review by Richard Doyle ★★½

    Horst Günter Marx is a doctor who wanders around nocturnal Berlin picking up women. He seems to have an ungodly power of attraction and women fall for him at the slightest suggestion. He's in love with Myriem Roussel, who he has only talked to on the phone when he dialed her by accident. He tracks her down and naturally they sleep together, but she is uninterested in a relationship since she's married to Hanns Zischler, who is surprisingly cool with the situation. Marx is engaged to Sonja Kirchberger, who is not that surprisingly jealous of his many many sexual relationships and she tries to win him back mainly by removing her clothes frequently.

    This is a weird film. It kind…

  • Review by Ossian

    highly watchable, ridiculous, subversive melodrama/comedy, everything is incredibly outlandish yet played completely straight making it all very funny

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