Le Coucher de la Mariée (1896)

Directed by

Albert Kirchner

Genre

pornographic film, silent film, erotic film

Country

France

Runtime

7 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French short from 1896 shows a woman performing a striptease for the camera. It was one of the first erotic films ever made but stops short of nudity.

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What happens

Le Coucher de la Mariée (Bedtime for the Bride or The Bridegroom's Dilemma) is a French erotic short film considered to be one of the first erotic films ever made. The film was first screened in Paris in November 1896, within a year of the first public screening of a projected motion picture. The film was produced by Eugène Pirou and directed by Albert Kirchner (under the pseudonym "Léar"). It features a risqué (for the time) striptease, but does not end in nudity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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