''Europe in the Raw'' is a 1963 American
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
written and directed by
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that fea ...
. The film was released on March 28, 1963.
Cast
*Veronique Gabriel
*Gigi La Touche
*Abundavita
*Denise Du Vall
*Heide Richter
*Yvette Le Grand
*Greta Thorwald
*Shawn Devereaux
*Franklin L. Thistle
Production
Meyer shot the film in Europe after completing his adaptation of ''Fanny Hill''. According to
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
, Meyer "concealed a 16-mm camera in a suitcase and got footage in the red-light districts of Paris, Amsterdam and elsewhere." Meyer later felt the suitcase camera was unhandy and difficult to use, and that he would not recommend making a film in that way again."
[RUSS MEYER: King of the Nudies
Ebert, Roger. ''Film Comment''; New York Vol. 9, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 1973): 35-46.]
See also
*
List of American films of 1963
A list of American films released in 1963.
''Cleopatra'' - the highest-grossing film of 1963.
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See also
* 1964 in the United States
External links
1963 filmsat the Internet Movie Database
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References
External links
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''Europe in the Raw''at
TCMDB
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atl ...
1963 films
1960s English-language films
American documentary films
1963 documentary films
Films directed by Russ Meyer
1960s American films
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