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Black Emanuelle

Black Emanuelle
Black Emanuelle FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed by Albert Thomas
Produced by Mario Mariani
Written by Bitto Albertini
Ambrogio Molteni
Starring Emanuelle
Karin Schubert
Angelo Infanti
Isabelle Marchall
Gabriele Tinti
Music by Nico Fidenco
Cinematography Carlo Carlini
Edited by Vincenzo Tomassi
Production
company
San Nicola Produzione Cinematografica
Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche
Emaus Films
Distributed by Fida Cinematografica (Italy)
Stirling Gold (US)
Columbia-Warner Distributors (UK)
Release date
27 November 1975
Running time
94 minutes
Country Italy
Spain
Language Italian

Black Emanuelle (Italian: Emanuelle nera) is an Italian-Spanish softcore sexploitation film from 1975 directed by Bitto Albertini. Black Emanuelle follows an erotic adventure of Mae Jordan (Laura Gemser), a globe-trotting, hedonistic investigative journalist and photographer known to her readers as "Emanuelle". This Africa set film was shot mostly in Kenya.

Black Emanuelle was made to cash in on the success of the French film Emmanuelle with Sylvia Kristel, which was released the year before, the one "M" in the name of the lead character was deliberately omitted to avoid copyright claims.

By 1976 came two Black Emanuelle follow-ups, one in title (Black Emanuelle 2 by Albertini) and one in plot (Emanuelle in Bangkok, a.k.a. Black Emanuelle 2, by Joe D'Amato), also triggering four quasi-sequels from 1977 to 1978 by D'Amato (under the title Emanuelle) and two Emanuelle women in prison films by Bruno Mattei in 1982 and 1983.

Black Emanuelle 2 differs greatly in plot than the first film, featuring Israeli actress Shulamith Lasri as Emanuelle Richmond, a supermodel going through a state of amnesia and locked in a mental institution in New York. The lead actor, as in the first film, is Angelo Infanti.

Albertini's later movie, Il Mondo dei sensi di Emy Wong (1977, starring Chai Lee) was released as Emanuelle Gialla and Yellow Emanuelle in some markets.


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