Mache Alles Mit!, which means essentially "experience
everything," is an obscure bit of West German erotica. It was
evidently shown in the UK under the titles Bed-Partners and A Bit of
Everything, but is only
available on DVD in German with no English subtitles, so my plot description will
reveal more
than usual, hence spoiler warnings.
SPOILERS
Dagmar (Marion Forster) is 17, ripe and curious. Her father is a
ogre who is dedicating to making sure she remains pure. She finds an
ad from a sexy young couple looking for a threesome and answers it,
but before anything can happen, her parents call the
police, who spot the ad circled in her bedroom, and
investigate. The swingers sneak her out the back door before the
police spot her.
Dagmar runs to her friend's house to get some
cash. She calls home, and finds that her mom is somewhat sympathetic, and makes arrangements for her to stay with her
aunt in the country, telling the religious spinster aunt that she is
pregnant. The aunt keeps pumping her for salacious information, and
lacking experiences of her own, obliges with tales of all of the young women around her. Aunt is
way more interested in these erotic tales than you would expect from a
devout woman. Eventually, Dagmar relates a story featuring herself
with a
young man, whereupon the aunt calls her a whore of Babylon and starts
beating her with a rubber hose. Dagmar tells auntie that she is
actually a virgin and not pregnant at all, but auntie will have none
of it. Dagmar runs away, and moves into a mill house with a student
she has met. The two eventually fall in love, but Dagmar is underage, so we need a moral ending.
Dad discovers where Dagmar is hiding, and shows
up with the police. They arrest the boyfriend, and Dagmar is forced to
go home.
END SPOILERS
This film is decidedly for a specialized taste and is not typical erotica. Dagmar
is an interesting and sympathetic character, and the underlying
message, that at some point kids need to be allowed to mature the way
they want to, is one I agree with. Unfortunately, the complexity of
the characterization, which is the film's greatest strength, is
actually a weakness in this case because the DVD has no English
subtitles. In a more traditional sort of erotic film, the
language would be far less important than here, where the story is
very difficult to understand unless you have some command of German.
