''Am Abend'' ("''In the Evening''") is an early 20th century

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which was made in 1910. Along with the

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film '' El Satario'' (c. 1907–1915) and the American film ''

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'' or ''A Grass Sandwich'' (c. 1915–1917), it is one of the earliest hardcore

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s, produced between the years 1907 and 1915, that have been collected at the

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Description

Like the other two films, ''Am Abend'' begins with a primitive narrative frame sequence, then it shows signs of a more conventional cinema for a short period of time, and it finally shows hard-core scenes in a fragmented manner.

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scholar Linda Williams, suggested that early pornographic films, such as ''Am Abend'', like modern-day pornographic videos, showed close ups of

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s and medium shots of

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. Thus, there were structural similarities between early stag films and modern-day pornographic videos. The duration of ''Am Abend'' is 10 minutes. The film starts with an act of

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, depicting a man peeping through a keyway into a woman's bedroom. In the room, the woman lies alone on a bed and

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for some minutes. Then, the man enters the woman's bedroom, undresses himself, the woman gives him a bath and the two partners engage in different sexual activities in multiple

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. The sexual activities includes the man penetrating from top,

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, further masturbation by the woman, and sex in the

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position. The sex, however, is stopped prematurely when the man suffers from

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. The hard-core scene in this film is shown in a

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of the man and woman in their bed with inserted close-ups of the genitals, penetration, etc.

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