Bedside-films

{{short description|Film series}} {{Italic title}} The '''''Bedside''-films''' is a series of eight feature films directed by John Hilbard in 1970 to 1976, which forms part of the wave of erotic films from Denmark.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hjort |first=Mette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gm7kCwAAQBAJ |title=A Companion to Nordic Cinema |last2=Lindqvist |first2=Ursula |date=2016-03-31 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-47528-7 |pages=795 |language=en}}</ref> The eight films are connected by the Danish word "sengekant" (English: ''bedside'') in the title of each film.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sundholm |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae4QqlUDt9wC |title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema |last2=Thorsen |first2=Isak |last3=Andersson |first3=Lars Gustaf |last4=Hedling |first4=Olof |last5=Iversen |first5=Gunnar |last6=Møller |first6=Birgir Thor |date=2012-08-31 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5524-3 |pages=309 |language=en}}</ref> They were produced by the film company A/S Palladium, and starred Danish actor Ole Søltoft in all except, ''Motorvej på sengekanten'' (English: ''Bedside Motorway)''.

== About == All the ''Bedside''-films had many pornographic sex scenes, but were nevertheless considered mainstream films. They all had mainstream casts and crews, and were shown in mainstream cinemas and reviewed in national newspapers etc.<ref name="Ebbe Villadsen 2005">Ebbe Villadsen: ''Danish Erotic Film Classics'' (2005)</ref> The first five, made 1970 to 1973, all featured the actress Birte Tove and were "soft-core". The last three, made 1975 and 1976, after the first of the ''Zodiac''-films were released, all included hard-core scenes and shared many actresses with the Zodiac films, such as Anne Bie Warburg, Vivi Rau and Lisbeth Olsen. The actress Annie Birgit Garde features in all the ''Bedside''-films.

Another Danish film company, Happy Film, made a similar series called the ''Zodiac''-films, also starring Ole Søltoft. All of these films had hardcore-scenes, but were nonetheless also considered mainstream-productions, with mainstream casts and crews. The first Danish sex comedies were made in the 1960s, but Ole Ege's ''Bordellet'' (1972) was the first to have hardcore sex-scenes.<ref name="Ebbe Villadsen 2005" />

==List of films== There were eight bedside movies in total:

* ''Mazurka på sengekanten'' (English: ''Bedroom Mazurka'') (1970),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hsu |first=Greta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neQN68MZLjQC |title=Categories in Markets: Origins and Evolution |last2=Kocak |first2=Ozgecan |last3=Negro |first3=Giacomo |date=2010-11-12 |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing |isbn=978-0-85724-594-6 |pages=49 |language=en}}</ref> was the first of the eight movies and many regard it as the best. * ''Tandlæge på sengekanten'' (English: ''Bedside Dentist'') (1971) * ''Rektor på sengekanten'' (1972) * ''Motorvej på sengekanten'' (English: ''Bedside Highway'') (1972) * ''Romantik på sengekanten'' (English: ''Between the Sheets'') (1973) * ''Der må være en sengekant'' (1975) * ''Hopla på sengekanten'' (1976) * ''Sømænd på sengekanten'' (1976)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Ebbe Villadsen: ''Danish Erotic Film Classics'' (2005)

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090531131449/http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnffuldvis&p_parmlist=filmid=197 ''Mazurka på sengekanten'' at Danmarks Nationalfilmografi] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819142534/http://win.gentedirispetto.com/snitzforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=373 Discussion of the Bedside- and Zodiac-films at Gente Di Rispette Movie Forum]

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