Mondo Homo: Inquiry Into 70's Gay French Porn

Between 1975 and 1983 a new kind of film could be seen in French cinema: home-grown gay pornography. They were essentially the work of three production companies: Les Films de La Troika (Norbert Terry), AMT Productions (Anne-Marie Tensi) and Les Films du Vertbois (principally Jacques Scandelari). The genre met an untimely end with the advent of video, the last being made in 1983 'Mon Ami, Mon Amour (My Friend, my Lover)'.

Cast

François About

as Self

Philippe Vallois

as Self

Jean-Étienne Siry

as Self

Jean-Michel Sénécal

as Self

Piotr Stanislas

as Self

Carmelo Petix

as Self

Karl Forest

as Self

Jacques Scandelari

as Self

Ghislain Van Hove

Benoît Archenoul

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