A Brief De-Booting

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From Schüler-Report (1971). He unlaces her white knee boots. Be warned of a peep toe, a ghastly style that is popular again.


It might seem odd to mention this after posting four straight German clips, but the horrible state of boots in German cinema remains a great mystery to me.  Logic would suggest that German movies would be comparable to French, Italian and English films in terms of boots. It's not even close.  There are of course some exceptions. Some of the late cycle Edgar Wallace krimis are decent, but while those were filmed in Germany most are set in London or America. Fassbinder could often be counted on to slip some boots in.
If forced to speculate on the reason it's this. Kitchen sink realism usually has a low chance of bootage. I've certainly found the best chance of bootage are often in what are called "genre films" The bulk of German low budget/cult/exploitation movies are sex comedies.  There are 100's of them but most are set in the summer (or on a southern holiday) which helps to explain their bootlessness. As a rule Germany doesn't produce many of the stylized hyper-action movies that give so much booty flavor to the cinema of Turkey or Mexico(or the run of Italian swashbuckers of the 50's and 60's).
I could just be imagining this and I know I'll keep downloading hoping to be proven wrong.