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Happening

Happening

★ 6,1 /10 (12 Votes)
1981 DE 77 min 18+

Overview

Carolyn Grace has an older husband who insists she wear very old-fashioned night clothes and is obviously unexciting in bed. She has lots of fantasies, triggered by chance events and encounters.

Release date

01/01/1981

Votes

12

Popularity

0.0

Status

Released

Language

DE

Runtime

77 min

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Martin Oaks

Martin Oaks

2026-08-21

⭐ 7

**Aesthetics, fetishism, and the bourgeoisie in the cinema of Alan Vydra** An enigmatic plot introduces us to the psychological transition of Caroline Grace, a young woman trapped in a monotonous, passionless marriage to an older, wealthy man. Her husband’s deeply conservative and repressed mindset forces her to wear modest, old-fashioned sleepwear, stifling any hint of eroticism. To cope with her profound frustration and marital apathy, Caroline begins to unleash her imagination through vivid, recurring sexual fantasies inspired by chance encounters in her daily life. Over the course of…

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