Blue Passion
(Based on the English dubbed video edition of 1990, and DVD.) 1. Black Aphrodite Shot of pedestrians crossing Times Square, Manhattan. The Boss calls on Tamara, furious because he has not been able…
Blue Passion
(Based on the English dubbed video edition of 1990, and DVD.) 1. Black Aphrodite Shot of pedestrians crossing Times Square, Manhattan. The Boss calls on Tamara, furious because he has not been able to contact Number One himself. Shot of a clock tower somewhere in Europe. [It looks like Tolbooth Steeple Clock Tower, Glasgow, Scotland.] Tamara does so easily from her hotel bedroom, not even bothering to put some clothes on. A phone operator takes her call, from "American Marketing Import Export". [It was American Intelligence Agency (AIA) in the original version.] Credits roll over a military convoy of trucks and armored cars, taking over a guarded palace. The guerrillas from the convoy take over the compound, captures the President, and machine-guns him and a handful of the opposite survivors. Number One aka General, considers that Operation Condor was not a success, because the arms were not delivered to his customers, and had fallen in the wrong hands. Thus, he suspects that there is a traitor among his operatives, and sends Tamara to join the group, and discover the traitor. He names the new operation Black Aphrodite, in honor of the beauty of his agent. She disrobes for him, and they make love. 2. Watching More terrorist attacks are taking place... Edwige, blonde investigative reporter, meets Steve, when he is fishing on a pond with ducks, during his holiday. Soon, they are naked, and making love in the brushes. He stops suddenly, aware that someone is spying on them. He runs after the man, and they fight by, and into the lake. The man surrenders, and says he only wanted to deliver a message... 3. Start At a bowling alley, Steve receives instructions from The Boss: he is to stop the operation of delivery of weapons. Next, the General passes the information to Tamara. Next, a long hair brunette, Julie, leaves a message on a piece of paper for someone, reading "Operation Black Aphrodite" has started. Shot of the Town Hall, Hamburg. A heavy man in white jacket and trousers passes a briefcase "with the documents for the operation", to Gus, in the men's WC of an underground commercial center. Just as the man in white leaves, Gus dies garroted with a leather belt by a Mystery Man with black gloves, who leaves with the briefcase. Someway, Tamara enters the men's WC, and finds Gus dead. In a villa, Steve is talking with his black partner Jack. Soon, he opens the door to other two members of the team, a smiling bearded Frank, and an offish Peter with sunglasses. The four agents wonder why Gus is taking so long. The door bell rings, and Steve is surprised that it's Tamara, instead of Gus. He introduces her to the others. She brings them the bad news about Gus. Then she starts ordering the men around, "Start packing. Tomorrow we'll leave for Greece." Steve calls The Boss, to be sure she has been nominated their leader, and the confirmation is given over the phone. She hands the men the train tickets, and they leave, except for Steve. The pair has a drink, and soon they are getting to know each other better, and intimately. 4. On My Own Meanwhile, at Edwige's apartment, she's revealing some photographs. She is surprised to find she's not alone. Peter demands her the role of film, and tells her to forget about him... He slaps her around, telling her that he doesn't want publicity, and leaves. 5. Train Tamara sits by Steve's, and pretends to read Newsweek magazine, while keeping an eye on a young man who was looking intensely at her. She leaves the train carriage and surprises him in another, with sleeping compartments. Reluctantly, he accepts her invitation for casual sex. He is archaeologist on his way to Greece. They kiss and fondle each other, while her team colleagues start noticing that she's been gone a bit too long. Peter goes out, looking for her. In the middle of the corridor, he stops to get fresh hair, and he is stabbed in the back by Mystery Man, and thrown off the train. Meanwhile, Julie is is topless in a Greek beach, receiving orders from a Mystery Man: she should get in contact with Steve, "who is mad about her", and use him. Edwige arrives in a commercial jet flight, and is met by her lover Julie. Unknown to them, they're being spied on by a Mystery Man. "Peter is dead," complains Steve to Tamara, suspicious of her for having left his company to have fun with the archaeologist. He is seconded by the other team members, mostly because, as Jack puts it, "We're doing a man's job, and then suddenly a woman comes and starts messing around." 6. Sharing Steve receives the visit of an unknown girl at his hotel room. She suggests they share the room, and he invites her in. Next, he is undressing her, and they share their names: Steve, and Julie. Julie sets a meeting for him with Edwige, and tells him she is a schoolmate of hers. Tamara - in the nude, in her bath tub - calls The Boss to tell him that Peter is dead. He gives her information on the next cargo of weapons, brought in a ship that is to cross the canal of Corinth. She calls him "baby". Alone, Tamara masturbates, while Steve and Julie have sex. While Steve takes a shower, Julie places a microphone hidden in his phone receiver. Steve confers with Black Aphrodite, and Julie hears their innocent remarks. 7. Sniper Steve meets Edwige at Mount Lycabettus; they walk around the small Chapel of St. George and the coffee esplanade close to it, and enjoying the 360º view of Athens. They're being followed by a Motorcyclist with Helmet. Tamara with binoculars, is surveying a cargo ship cruising the Corinth Channel. She notices that a sniper is aiming at Jack when he was preparing to dive from a metal bridge across the channel, but she had no means to warn him. Jack dies. Steve gives chase on foot, and Tamara in her car, but the Motorcyclist with Helmet outdistances them easily. Tamara goes straight to the Acropole, where she happens to meet the Archaeologist. He takes photos of her, and she looks intently at the man's gold bracelet in his left wrist. Steve has found about the listening device in his phone, and now is interrogating Julie about it. Edwige pleads for her, and interrogates her alone - while making love to her... 8. Information Edwige calls Steve and tells him that Julie decided to cooperate, but she does not know the name of the man who she receives orders from; yet, Julie is about to see him again "next week". Tamara and Steve take a touristic tour around one of the Greek islands. Meanwhile, the Mystery Man gives another mission to the Motorcyclist with Helmet... Next, the biker hires a fishing boat and it's six sailors for another job. Steve and Tamara are still discussing who the traitor may be, even now that the team is reduced to three. 9. Prisoner Julie is swimming in the nude in an isolated beach, when she is addressed to by a big Fisherman, who offers her a grapefruit. He attacks her on the beach, she fights him, but he is heavier and stronger... Meanwhile, Tamara invites Steve to make love to her on the beach. Edwige passes the information to Steve: the Mystery Man is a Fisherman in one of the islands. 10. Tied The Fisherman has tied Julie to a cart wheel. He is attacked by Steve and Frank. They are unable to surprise him, and he quickly plunges an ax into Frank's belly. Steve and the Fisherman fight for a while, on the beach and in the water, then Steve is able to plunge the ax in the man's belly. also killing him. Edwige has given rendez-vous to the young sailor of the six crew at the Sissifos Tavern, on the lower part of the Acropole. She accepts his invitation to join him in the backroom, and his foreplay, which includes him tying her up to a pole... But the Motorcyclist with Helmet intervenes, puts a plastic bag over her head, and chokes her to death. Steve was in the main room of the tavern, but only comes to her aid when it wasn't needed. Steve chases the biker in his car, to a remote place out of town. 11. Caught Tamara, robed in a brown cheetah swimsuit black leather knee boots, seems to be waiting for the Motorcyclist with Helmet - with a 12-gauge shotgun. She wastes several shots from various positions in the midst of abandoned hamlets built with pieces of rock. When he falls, with a leg caught under the motorbike, and takes his helmet off, it is revealed that he his the Archaeologist. Steve arrives - again too late - as she had already shot the man dead, hitting him under the bullet-proof vest, twice. Julie is having sex with a young man on the deck of a fishing boat, while the Mystery Man looks at them. The Motorcyclist with Helmet arrives a bit later to the rendez-vous with his hired sailors - and surprises the first of them by shooting him dead with a shotgun. Two other sailors attempt to shoot him, but he is too fast for them, and they die. The Motorcyclist with Helmet takes his helmet off, revealing that he is now Steve. He calls out to Peter - who had not been murdered in the train after all - to surrender, but he doesn't. Peter is shot, but even wounded, he faces up to Steve with a gun, and dies in the shoot-out. A flashback shows how Peter and Steve had been partners as mercenaries in some war. 12. Vacation Tamara kisses Steve in his hotel room. The phone rings. Steve picks the call. The Boss wants to know what he is doing in Athens, as the "job is over". Steve replies that he is taking a vacation, and hangs up. The Boss is not surprised. Steve and Tamara renew their pleasure vacation in bed, again.
Blue Passion
Action,Crime,Drama
Film Details
(Based on the English dubbed video edition of 1990, and DVD.) 1. Black Aphrodite Shot of pedestrians crossing Times Square, Manhattan. The Boss calls on Tamara, furious because he has not been able to contact Number One himself.
Shot of a clock tower somewhere in Europe. [It looks like Tolbooth Steeple Clock Tower, Glasgow, Scotland.] Tamara does so easily from her hotel bedroom, not even bothering to put some clothes on. A phone operator takes her call, from "American Marketing Import Export".
[It was American Intelligence Agency (AIA) in the original version.] Credits roll over a military convoy of trucks and armored cars, taking over a guarded palace. The guerrillas from the convoy take over the compound, captures the President, and machine-guns him and a handful of the opposite survivors. Number One aka General, considers that Operation Condor was not a success, because the arms were not delivered to his customers, and had fallen in the wrong hands.
Thus, he suspects that there is a traitor among his operatives, and sends Tamara to join the group, and discover the traitor. He names the new operation Black Aphrodite, in honor of the beauty of his agent. She disrobes for him, and they make love.
2. Watching More terrorist attacks are taking place... Edwige, blonde investigative reporter, meets Steve, when he is fishing on a pond with ducks, during his holiday.
Soon, they are naked, and making love in the brushes. He stops suddenly, aware that someone is spying on them. He runs after the man, and they fight by, and into the lake.
The man surrenders, and says he only wanted to deliver a message... 3. Start At a bowling alley, Steve receives instructions from The Boss: he is to stop the operation of delivery of weapons.
Next, the General passes the information to Tamara. Next, a long hair brunette, Julie, leaves a message on a piece of paper for someone, reading "Operation Black Aphrodite" has started. Shot of the Town Hall, Hamburg.
A heavy man in white jacket and trousers passes a briefcase "with the documents for the operation", to Gus, in the men's WC of an underground commercial center. Just as the man in white leaves, Gus dies garroted with a leather belt by a Mystery Man with black gloves, who leaves with the briefcase. Someway, Tamara enters the men's WC, and finds Gus dead.
In a villa, Steve is talking with his black partner Jack. Soon, he opens the door to other two members of the team, a smiling bearded Frank, and an offish Peter with sunglasses. The four agents wonder why Gus is taking so long.
The door bell rings, and Steve is surprised that it's Tamara, instead of Gus. He introduces her to the others. She brings them the bad news about Gus.
Then she starts ordering the men around, "Start packing. Tomorrow we'll leave for Greece." Steve calls The Boss, to be sure she has been nominated their leader, and the confirmation is given over the phone. She hands the men the train tickets, and they leave, except for Steve.
The pair has a drink, and soon they are getting to know each other better, and intimately. 4. On My Own Meanwhile, at Edwige's apartment, she's revealing some photographs.
She is surprised to find she's not alone. Peter demands her the role of film, and tells her to forget about him... He slaps her around, telling her that he doesn't want publicity, and leaves.
5. Train Tamara sits by Steve's, and pretends to read Newsweek magazine, while keeping an eye on a young man who was looking intensely at her. She leaves the train carriage and surprises him in another, with sleeping compartments.
Reluctantly, he accepts her invitation for casual sex. He is archaeologist on his way to Greece. They kiss and fondle each other, while her team colleagues start noticing that she's been gone a bit too long.
Peter goes out, looking for her. In the middle of the corridor, he stops to get fresh hair, and he is stabbed in the back by Mystery Man, and thrown off the train. Meanwhile, Julie is is topless in a Greek beach, receiving orders from a Mystery Man: she should get in contact with Steve, "who is mad about her", and use him.
Edwige arrives in a commercial jet flight, and is met by her lover Julie. Unknown to them, they're being spied on by a Mystery Man. "Peter is dead," complains Steve to Tamara, suspicious of her for having left his company to have fun with the archaeologist.
He is seconded by the other team members, mostly because, as Jack puts it, "We're doing a man's job, and then suddenly a woman comes and starts messing around." 6. Sharing Steve receives the visit of an unknown girl at his hotel room. She suggests they share the room, and he invites her in.
Next, he is undressing her, and they share their names: Steve, and Julie. Julie sets a meeting for him with Edwige, and tells him she is a schoolmate of hers. Tamara - in the nude, in her bath tub - calls The Boss to tell him that Peter is dead.
He gives her information on the next cargo of weapons, brought in a ship that is to cross the canal of Corinth. She calls him "baby". Alone, Tamara masturbates, while Steve and Julie have sex.
While Steve takes a shower, Julie places a microphone hidden in his phone receiver. Steve confers with Black Aphrodite, and Julie hears their innocent remarks. 7.
Sniper Steve meets Edwige at Mount Lycabettus; they walk around the small Chapel of St. George and the coffee esplanade close to it, and enjoying the 360º view of Athens. They're being followed by a Motorcyclist with Helmet.
Tamara with binoculars, is surveying a cargo ship cruising the Corinth Channel. She notices that a sniper is aiming at Jack when he was preparing to dive from a metal bridge across the channel, but she had no means to warn him. Jack dies.
Steve gives chase on foot, and Tamara in her car, but the Motorcyclist with Helmet outdistances them easily. Tamara goes straight to the Acropole, where she happens to meet the Archaeologist. He takes photos of her, and she looks intently at the man's gold bracelet in his left wrist.
Steve has found about the listening device in his phone, and now is interrogating Julie about it. Edwige pleads for her, and interrogates her alone - while making love to her... 8.
Information Edwige calls Steve and tells him that Julie decided to cooperate, but she does not know the name of the man who she receives orders from; yet, Julie is about to see him again "next week". Tamara and Steve take a touristic tour around one of the Greek islands. Meanwhile, the Mystery Man gives another mission to the Motorcyclist with Helmet...
Next, the biker hires a fishing boat and it's six sailors for another job. Steve and Tamara are still discussing who the traitor may be, even now that the team is reduced to three. 9.
Prisoner Julie is swimming in the nude in an isolated beach, when she is addressed to by a big Fisherman, who offers her a grapefruit. He attacks her on the beach, she fights him, but he is heavier and stronger... Meanwhile, Tamara invites Steve to make love to her on the beach.
Edwige passes the information to Steve: the Mystery Man is a Fisherman in one of the islands. 10. Tied The Fisherman has tied Julie to a cart wheel.
He is attacked by Steve and Frank. They are unable to surprise him, and he quickly plunges an ax into Frank's belly. Steve and the Fisherman fight for a while, on the beach and in the water, then Steve is able to plunge the ax in the man's belly.
also killing him. Edwige has given rendez-vous to the young sailor of the six crew at the Sissifos Tavern, on the lower part of the Acropole. She accepts his invitation to join him in the backroom, and his foreplay, which includes him tying her up to a pole...
But the Motorcyclist with Helmet intervenes, puts a plastic bag over her head, and chokes her to death. Steve was in the main room of the tavern, but only comes to her aid when it wasn't needed. Steve chases the biker in his car, to a remote place out of town.
11. Caught Tamara, robed in a brown cheetah swimsuit black leather knee boots, seems to be waiting for the Motorcyclist with Helmet - with a 12-gauge shotgun. She wastes several shots from various positions in the midst of abandoned hamlets built with pieces of rock.
When he falls, with a leg caught under the motorbike, and takes his helmet off, it is revealed that he his the Archaeologist. Steve arrives - again too late - as she had already shot the man dead, hitting him under the bullet-proof vest, twice. Julie is having sex with a young man on the deck of a fishing boat, while the Mystery Man looks at them.
The Motorcyclist with Helmet arrives a bit later to the rendez-vous with his hired sailors - and surprises the first of them by shooting him dead with a shotgun. Two other sailors attempt to shoot him, but he is too fast for them, and they die. The Motorcyclist with Helmet takes his helmet off, revealing that he is now Steve.
He calls out to Peter - who had not been murdered in the train after all - to surrender, but he doesn't. Peter is shot, but even wounded, he faces up to Steve with a gun, and dies in the shoot-out. A flashback shows how Peter and Steve had been partners as mercenaries in some war.
12. Vacation Tamara kisses Steve in his hotel room. The phone rings.
Steve picks the call. The Boss wants to know what he is doing in Athens, as the "job is over". Steve replies that he is taking a vacation, and hangs up.
The Boss is not surprised. Steve and Tamara renew their pleasure vacation in bed, again..