Description

What They Were

• A series of six erotic comedy films, each themed around a zodiac sign.
• Produced during Denmark’s era of legalized pornography and booming “erotic folk comedies.”
• Known for mixing:
  • Traditional Danish humor
  • Rural/family-style comedy plots
  • Hardcore pornographic scenes (integrated into the narrative)
• This hybrid made them unique in world cinema — mainstream comedies with explicit content. the full series is as follows
  1. In the Sign of the Lion (1976)
  2. In the Sign of the Virgin (1973)
  3. In the Sign of the Taurus (1974) — I Tyrens Tegn
     • Directed by Werner Hedman
     • Plot: A wealthy benefactor’s will forces a town to produce an illegitimate child within 9½ months or lose his fortune to homeless cats.
  4. In the Sign of the Gemini (1975)
  5. In the Sign of the Sagittarius (1978)
  6. In the Sign of the Scorpio (1977)  All films are in the danish language with english subtitles where available.
  7. Scorpio and sagittarius are centred around a secret agent 69 called jensen.