Joy of Flying
1979·Germany - West Germany (FRG)·89 min.
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Young and attractive woman Sylvia (Corinne Cartier) runs a successful fashion boutique and neglected by her husband Kurt. He is more interested in TV and six-packs than the charms of the opposite sex which makes her frustrated. During the trip to a psychoanalysts congress, she dreams similar to Jong's heroine Isadora while reading the emancipatory novel titled Joy of Flying Into Own World. First she has sex with her girlfriend's lover and then an affair with the businessman Jörg. Shefinally realizes that the total enjoyment of all sexual day and night dreams alone makes no one a free person.
DirectorFranz Josef Gottlieb
ScreenwriterMia Sorell
MusicGerhard Heinz
CinematographyFranz Xaver Lederle
CastCorinne Brodbeck·Gianni Garko·Olivia Pascal·Frits Hassoldt·Betty Vergès·Brigitte Strobel·Hubert Berger·Ajita Wilson·Michel Jacot·Almut Berg
Original titleSylvia im Reich der Wollust
Also known asJoy of Flying