< European Sex Vacation

• Karine Gambier
• Laura Levi
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The title is that of the film's international [VHS?] release by VCA Pictures (in 1987; see its boxcover) and has the following (for good part fake) opening performers' credits: Telly Stalone, Karine Gambier, Gloria Alay, Nick Reddy, Andy Winter, Gabriella Moore, Manny Land, Stella Mack, Tina Yoyng (!), George Rivers, Betty Loop, John Coman, Bill Cooper.

Regarding the title, a closer look at the opening credits shows that, compared to all the other credits, it was written in a different typeface, having been probably used (invented?) on the occasion of its international circulation, which dates from 1987 (inviting speculations that this film was shot in 1986). So the original title is yet to be discovered. This shouldn't imply, though, that the original title is necessarily a German one, as in this film all the male performers, who narrate the story's episodes, speak directly in English. There is also no clue whatsoever, if the film was another production of Atelier-Film. In the opening credits, we can read only "Tony Still presents".

Besides Gambier and Levi, five more unknown females do appear, some of them having probably already an EGAFD entry. Gambier being the only (?) one to be credited with her usual name, that makes six girls (including Levi) whose names should correspond to the ones of Gloria Alay, Gabriella Moore, Manny Land, Stella Mack, Tina Yoyng, Betty Loop. There is some doubt about the name Andy Winter, which might as easily correspond to a male (although, in this section, there could be one too many).

Males -

• Telis Stallone as Telly Stalone
• Nikos Kokkinos as Nick Reddy
• three more uncredited males (most of them probably Greeks, who also appear in Lust-Injektion - Eine Spritze der Lust), corresponding to the names of George Rivers, John Coman and Bill Cooper.

Plot Summary -

It's the end of the summer and four friends enjoy the last days of their holidays by the pool of some hotel, narrating in detail their sexual adventures with beautiful foreign girls who have spent their vacation in Greece.

Some remarks -

As already mentioned before, in the case of the film Lust-Injection - Eine Spritze der Lust, this nice film is another case of "'joint' West German-Greek production (following the example of the 1978 film 5 Girls heiss wie Lava). It is a (West) German financed production, shot in Greece around 1979-1980 by Greek (but German-based) director Andreas Katsimitsoulias, starring an international female cast (Gambier, Levi, but also many Germans among the uncredited and maybe one or two unknown Greek girls) and a (probably) all-Greek male cast (featuring well-known guys, like Telis Stallone and Nikos Kokkinos, along with some other unknowns)". As was the case with Lust Injection, this title "has [also] remained practically unknown in Greece (to my knowledge, the film never received a VHS circulation in Greece), and was neither listed among those years' productions nor mentioned at all in the relatively trustworthy documentation available concerning Greek Cinema (and Greek Porn in particular). This film is so-to-speak a "twin" film of Lust-Injection - Eine Spritze der Lust. However, the fact that the female cast is not identical in these two films (but for the exception of the two protagonists: Gambier and Levi) plus the difference in the locations used may imply that both these films were not shot back-to-back at exactly the same time, but maybe with(in) a year's difference. If we were to accept that "Lust Injection" dates from around 1979, the guys in "European Sex Vacation" speak of the 'Summer Sex Olympics', enhancing suspicions that the latter was shot or released in 1980. Of course, both films could have been shot with a week's difference, but that doesn't quite explain the appearance of many different girls in both of them".

In any case, there are two main elements that lead us to the establishment of a more or less precise date (1979 or 1980) for both these titles. The first one concerns a scene in European Sex Vacation, where Laura Levi peeps from a window on some Greek ferryboat to a threesome, which was featured in its totality in Lust Injection, proving thus the relationships between the two films and their production company. The second (and main) argument is relative to their actors. Regarding the females, Karine Gambier practically hasn't made any films after 1980, whereas Laura Levi looks younger and in much better shape, compared to her early 1980s appearances in Italian (and other) productions. This is also the case with the known males, Kokkinos and especially Stallone, who looks very young (in his early 20's) and thin, although already absolutely capable of delivering extremely strong performances, that were, mysteriously, only to be given for the Greek public in the years to come, enabling him to reach local stardom.

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Thanks to AN for the captures.