Country: Italy, France
Year: 1974
Duration: 90'
oriental love code Two girls, both of whom are in love with someone else, decide to run away from their respective families in order to avoid being forced into a combined marriage. They abandon their native village and wander through wild territory until they come upon a temple in ruins, where they are welcomed by a priest who runs a community dedicated to erotic rituals. “I was supposed to have filmed in Ceylon, then we decided on Laos. I stayed there for a month, but then the co-producer, who was the son of the President of the Laotian Republic, realized that he had signed a contract with Bini who – as he himself said – ‘was a bottomless pit.’ So we moved to Thailand, where one morning the head of production calls me and tells me to read the newspaper: it said ‘The police are searching for an Italian troupe!’ What had happened? They had gone there to shoot Emanuelle and those French imbeciles couldn’t find anything better to do than shoot an erotic scene inside a sacred fountain. Then they ran away. The other erotic film was mine… I locked myself up in the embassy.”
Biography
film director
Piero Vivarelli
Piero Vivarelli (Siena, Italy, 1927 - Rome, Italy, 2010) began his career collaborating with Lucio Fulci on a number of films about young singers of the time, like I ragazzi del jukebox (1959) and Urlatori alla sbarra (1960). At the same time he debuted in directing with similar films (from Sanremo, la grande sfida, which he made in 1960, to Rita, la figlia Americana, from 1965). He alternated screenwriting with directing and went on to B thrillers (Satanik, 1968; Il dio serpente, 1970), sometimes allowing himself a touch of the licentious (Il Decamerone nero, 1975). In 1984, he and Silvano Agosti made the documentary L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer, after which they made Provocazione (1988) and Rumbera (1998), which were not distributed.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Sanremo, la grande sfida (1960), Io bacio... tu baci (1961), Oggi a Berlino (1962), Il vuoto (1964), Rita, la figlia americana (1965), Mister X (1967), Satanik (1968), Il dio serpente (1970), Il Decamerone nero (1972), Codice d’amore orientale (1974), Nella misura in cui... (1979), L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer (collettivo/collective, doc., 1984), Provocazione (1988), La rumbera (1998).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Piero Vivarelli
soggetto/story
Alfredo Bini
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Ottavio Alessi, Piero Vivarelli
fotografia/cinematography
Silvano Ippoliti, Roberto Gerardi
montaggio/film editing
Carlo Reali
musica/music
Alberto Baldan Bembo
interpreti/cast
Minerva Dali, Jose De Vega, Sayan Chantarviboom, Phung Sudannapat, Nirut Sirichania, Fu Jok En
produzione/production
Gerico Sound, Comacico
