Hello everyone, I know from searching the internet high and low both in the US and Europe that this film is very hard to find . Recently I was able to watch it in great quality with good sound from NetFlix . It's available at NetFlix as instant watching . No idea how they were able to source out a decent copy but they did . The film itself is a great reminder of times past especially if your in your 40's and you all know who you are :) The fashion, cars and constant cigarette smoking takes you all back . Btw I had to give it a 10 because I grew up in Austria . Hello everyone, I know from searching the internet high and low both in the US and Europe that this film is very hard to find . Recently I was able to watch it in great quality with good sound from NetFlix . It's available at NetFlix as instant watching . No idea how they were able to source out a decent copy but they did . The film itself is a great reminder of times past especially if your in your 40's and you all know who you are :) The fashion, cars and constant cigarette smoking takes you all back . Btw I had to give it a 10 because I grew up in Austria . Cheers !

At first, this completely bizarre Ivan Passer film seems like it's going to be an intriguing if fairly routine drama about insider trading. Omar Sharif plays Andre Ferren, a completely corrupt European businessman who's been cooking the books and gets caught out by an auditor. He's enamored of co-worker Susan Winters (Karen Black, quite charming even when decked out in '70s era non-finery), and convinces her to help him out by wedding a wealthy industrialist (Bernhard Wicki) for his money. Things get progressively stranger as Susan hooks up with an American cowboy (the hopelessly boring Joseph Bottoms) and drags him off to a hillside castle, whilst the eternally priapic Andre has an unfortunate encounter with a masseuse (Elma Karlowa from Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul). This is not a particularly good film, but it isn't boring and it certainly defies expectations.

Although the film has many weak moments and the Bottoms character is obviously there only to fill some time (the dreadfully long driving and bedroom sequences), it has many curious elements. The first part, right until Bottoms appears, is fast-paced and intriguing, with immoral and unpredictable characters that one can't help but be interested in. The second part, although slacking the pace, turns into a surreal baroque fairytale with dark barons, killing masseuses, knights in armor and people being shot from cannons. The entire film is bathing in happy-go-lucky immorality that feels refreshing most of the time. Not the worst way to spend an evening.

It's really unbelievable, how Ivan Passer, director, who has proved his talent several times, could shoot so stupid movie and waste talents of the actors, composer as well as the writer of the original story. This film is a true example of how to mess up just ANYTHING that could have been done wrong on a film. Story is being told in a way that even a horror enthusiast kid would not believe any single situation. Actors are playing so poorly, that I was asking thousand times how the hell could any director let these particular actors act so bad. Don't waste even a single minute watching this stupid caricature of a feature film. What a shame for the director!