Product Details

• Actors: Relja Basic, Mark Damon, Ivan Desny, Anton Diffring, Slobodan Dimitrijevic
• Directors: Radley Metzger
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 1999
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000ILET
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,419 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Little Mother" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Christiane Krüger is Marina Pinares, a thinly veiled Eva Peron known to her adoring public as "Little Mother" who sleeps, self-promotes, and blackmails her way to political power in an unnamed South American country. The mosaic Citizen Kane-like structure begins in the present, as the hypocritical hero of the people campaigns to become canonized while flashbacks reveal her wicked past: her early life as a call girl, wild orgies, and her cagey manipulations of a succession of powerful lovers. As in most of Radley Metzger's work, the sex is more teasing than explicit and Hans Jura's cinematography is lush and lovely, but the tone is more swinging '70s than cynical satire, neither as luridly sensationalistic as it should be or as dramatically compelling as it could be. Kruger never captures the necessary dynamism to convince us that she's the most loved figure of her time, but she delivers the ruthlessly ambitious dimension in spades and the supporting cast, including Ivan Desny (The Marriage of Maria Braun) and Anton Diffring (Fahrenheit 451), brings a touch of class to the sleazy but stylish decadence. Metzger's art-film ambitions are better realized in the lush romantic tragedy of Therese and Isabelle and the heady mind games of The Lickerish Quartet. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars don't cry for me i'm a Metzger fan, March 17, 2010

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Stephen G. Hartman "cinema jack" (jersey city,usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Mother (DVD)

over the years, certain movies are made and never 'released' to theatre's for one reason or other.
than years later, these films suddenly appear in the form of video tape.
"Little Mother", which on the box is clearly stated is based on the life of Evita Peron, was one
of these films. as usual the women are beautiful, the nudity is plentiful, but the story line is
weak.
how this could be based even loosely on Evita Peron is beyond me.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Cry For Me, Argentina, Kill Me With Boredom..., October 26, 2010

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4-Legged Defender "Anthony C. Rubbo" (ATL. GA.) - See all my reviews
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Very few of Radley Metzger's flicks deliver the exploitation goods properly, and this is one of them. He's always reaching farther than his talents can take him, so most of his films are half-assed attempts at art house exploitation that bare too little skin and are devoid of any art. In the early 60's he was almost onto something, but then veered off into X rated territory, and even that stuff is tame. His mid-70's work while utilizing the name 'Henry Paris',well, those are his finest achievements. This 'Evita' soft-core spin is uninspired, uneven and unequivocally lacking sexuality for a flick of its type. The plot is dull, the acting weak, all of which is forgivable IF you deliver the sexual angle you're promoting, but this one makes us wait far too long between scenes to make this a worthwhile venture. This flick makes 'Score', his latest re-release and first to get a blu-ray treatment, look good, and it too is bland, boring and reeks of a homoerotic vibe that will perturb most men who buy this for the nekkid babes. Skip this and look elsewhere for your jollies, 'cause I'm fairly certain you won't find them here...

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A minor cult movie., October 2, 2008

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D. Barber (Tacoma.Wash.) - See all my reviews

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I like Christianne Kruger so I took a chance and bought this one. I didn't expect much and so I wasn't disappointed much. This is more of an art film. Good photography as these things go, but a murky plot and a lot of artistic pretense. Buy it for the photography.