Before bathroom in the barn, you had film like the postmasters daughter 1941 that expose bare breast.Vienna's blood 1942 for a couple of seconds. Stolen tracks 1938.Why did this movie did not do the same thing? I'm guessing the rule was under the propaganda ministry,may be, as long as there was nothing sexual involved in it.A sexual subject was still a no no like in the united states hays code. All of a sudden the subject of peeping toms were permitted.At the time the idea of a film that focus on men spying on women while taking a bath was taboo.This was an early form of exploitation, that West Germany would be noted for later on , with actresses like Eva Bartok's .This was a Nazi Nudie Cutie in subtle form.This picture too had no subtle form of propaganda neither ,I don't think,.the plot is simple as in most adult features.A mayor wife has a one night stand with a merchant and in return he give her a bath tub.Everybody in this redneck place of Flanders' are not hygienic.They don't believe in baths.Was hygiene the subtle propaganda? or a more sneakier disguise? like the germs represented the unwanted people of Germany or Austria ?It might have been. The mayor hates baths and demand that his wife takes it into the barn.She's hygienic .She want to try.That's when the men ,out of boredom, wants to peep at her.When all the women ,of the village finds out, they get mad at the men.This might of had a sneaky message about the idea that Jews weren't hygienic lie too. that non Jews were hygienic, may be. Well her Friend decides to take a bathe and even the mayors wife starts to peep.The women of the village are angry ,so they punish the men by being separate from them.I still don't understand German so may be.From my stand point this is the first few times that husband and wife acting team ,Will Dohm and Heli Finkenzeller, have played in movies together.This is a sex comedy because Will is not the leading type,The leading type is Richard Haeuseller, who plays the merchant from Vienna ,Sartorius.Hell plays Antje and Dohm plays Mayor Hendricks. This was directed by actor filmmakers Volker Collande and his sister.,Gisela ,plays one of the characters, I think she was the one who takes the second bath.i t gets to the point where the mayor decides to throw it away.But then Antje want another one.So that's made.Near the end as she taking the bath,and the merchant comes back to give her a gift of a new dress. It rolls out of the barn and every one sees her.As far as the sexual suggestions this was bold at the time,although the breast scene in Munchhausen was bolder .In Germany this movie is not available on d.v.d just yet,They show it on t.v. once in while. Germanwar film.com has premiered an analog print but the color is good and saturated. You see another stalwart German character actor in it ,in color again,Paul Henckels.. 02/ 06/12
Review of Das Bad auf der Tenne
