Rafael 1 Review

Reviewed by Joe Shaver  on  9/21/2002

This film is about as Italian as sauerkraut. Oh, sure the scenery is Italian, but there’s nary an Italian guy to be seen. So if Italian men are your fantasy you won’t find them here. There are lots of Germans though. And I, for one, find Germans rather attractive with their big uncut schwanzes and their zest for sex. Gufa, the German studio, decided to take a group of young Germans to Italy, film them having sex, and then release it as three films now known in the American market as The Italian Trilogy. The first one is called Rafael (the one reviewed here), the second Leonardo, etc. There is neither a Rafael nor a Leonardo to be found, so why these stupid names? This is obviously the work of some American Klugscheißer. The real title of the series is CASA DEL CAZZI or HOUSE OF COCKS. Personally, I like that better; and it’s not trying to put one over on us as the American distributor is.

The film opens with “Benvenuto a Fanano” or “Welcome to Fanano” (Each of the scenes has a subtitle and also gives the names of the performers.) Fanano is an idyllic spot at the foot of Mount Cimone in Northeastern Italy (Modena) with spectacular views of the Apennines. The film opens with our eight performers (we will see only six in action in this film) arriving at their rented villa in an SUV. Rober Mafjan, a muscular guy with short-cropped bleached hair, phones into town for supplies, which are delivered by Pit Appennino, a dark skinny guy with a pierced nipple and tongue. These are our performers for the first suck and fuck amidst this gorgeous scenery. Both suck and both fuck. Rober cums after fucking and then goes back to sucking Pit until he climaxes.

The second scene is “Il Speccatore” which I not only can’t translate, but can’t find any dictionary to translate it either. The German is “ Spass beim Holzhocken” which in Pidgin English translates as “Joke in the wood squat position” or “Fun at the woodpile” (my translation). Anyway, Marc Amon is doing a piss-poor job of splitting logs for kindling when cute Bjorn Muller comes long with a piece of wood that is more attractive. (Bjorn Muller—now there’s a real Italian name! Oh, what the Hell, he’s cute.) They suck and Bjorn gets his little butt pounded. A missionary fuck in a wheelbarrow is especially fun here. Both shoot BIG loads.

Scene three is “Quercia Grossa” or “orgie auf dem Esstich” or “Orgy on the Dinner Table”. This begins with Marc Amon, Pit Appennino, Rober Mafjan, Bjorn Muller, Marc Spitz, and Enrico Ryan touring Fanano, a town which appears to have been devastated by plague as none of the local inhabitants are anywhere to be seen. Afterwards our tourists gather around a large table drinking Chianti and chatting inanely (das gebrabbel) so it’s time to fast forward to the good stuff. Marc pairs up with Pit and Rober goes after Bjorn. I don’t know what becomes of Marc and Enrico as they vanish from the face of the earth. Marc does bottom in the second of the series and Enrico is given credit here as a fluffer (a hard job, but someone has to do it). Soon Marc is fucking Pit. Then, while Pit is riding his cock, Marc sucks off Rober and Bjorn. Next, while still being fucked by Marc, Pit sucks Rober who is sucking Bjorn. The scene ends with everyone climaxing on Pit.

Quattro – Fier – Four: “ Olio Solare” – “Suntan Lotion”. Pascal Stalko is lying on his stomach on a chaise longue luxuriating in a nude sunbath. Great Body! Great Butt! Sven Leik (another good Italian name) offers to put some suntan oil on Pascal. Sven is skinny with receding hair. Naturally he concentrates on Pascal’s meaty buns. Sven turns over. Great Body! Great Uncut Meat! Most of these guys—with the exception of Bjorn who sports a full pubic bush—have taken the clippers to their groins and have left only stubble. Pascal has gone all the way and his crotch is a smooth as a baby’s. Something that really turns me on! (AND, you don’t get hair in your mouth.) Sven’s sucking on the hairless monster (did I mention it’s a big dick?) is all too brief. He wants to get fucked. When Pascal removes Sven’s shorts he discovers a large butt plug that he must remove in order to insert his own fleshy one. I was glad that after the fuck Sven went back to sucking Pascal giving me another opportunity to ogle his hairless physique.

Although we are told which guys are in each scene, they are not identified beyond that. It was only by owning parts one and two that I was able to deduce who was who. The scenery is great, the guys are sexy, the sex is good, the photography is superb. The music, however, is exceptionally vile. It is downright maddening! Unless you want to brush up on your German conversation turn off the sound or you’ll go nuts. When will filmmakers learn that the sweetest music is the sound of balls slapping butts, the sincere sighs and moans of those getting fucked, the gasps and groans of ecstasy as guys shoot their loads?

I doubt that you will want more than one of this trilogy unless you have a thing for one of the actors. For myself, I don't plan on getting part three of this trilogy, but I would really llike a weekend in Capri with Rober Mafjan