| Black Emanuelle | |
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| Directed by | Bitto Albertini |
| Written by | Bitto Albertini Ambrogio Molteni |
| Starring | Laura Gemser, Karin Schubert, Angelo Infanti, Isabelle Marchall, Gabriele Tinti |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Spain / Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Black Emanuelle (It. Emanuelle nera) is an Italian softcore sexploitation film from 1975, the first in a series made to cash in on the success of the French film Emmanuelle, which was released the year before. Like that film, it was followed by a long string of official and unofficial sequels.
The series follows the erotic, bizarre and occasionally violent travels of Emanuelle, a globe-trotting, hedonistic investigative journalist (played generally by Laura Gemser).
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(the following films are a subsection of the original series)
The later D'Amato films feature scenes of extreme violence and depravity (one controversial scene in Emanuelle in America shows a naked woman masturbating a horse), something not found in the "authentic" Emmanuelle (with a double "m") softcore films. Uncut versions of several Black Emanuelle films contain scenes depicting actual penetration. Also Black Emanuelle and Emanuelle Around the World contain scenes where the Emanuelle character is seen having explicit sex. These scenes were created with hardcore inserts, using a body double. Laura Gemser never performed explicit sexual acts on film, nor was she informed that a body double would be used.
These are films that star Laura Gemser as a character other than Black Emanuelle but that have, at one point or another, been promoted as Emanuelle films. The name of her character has often been changed to Emanuelle in the English dubbing of the films.
Bitto Albertini's later movie, Il Mondo dei sensi di Emy Wong (1977, starring Chai Lee) was released as Yellow Emanuelle in some markets.