"Frisky Summer 3: Wild Strawberries" is a DVD-only collection of some of the best outdoor scenes, alternate edits from the originals, from a handful of Bel Ami productions ("Frisky Summer 2," "Frisky Summer 3," and "Cherries"). "Wild Strawberries" brings some wet memories and surprises.
Right off the bat in a classic scene from "Frisky Summer 2" (1997), we get one of the more startling surprises -- how incredibly sexy Max Pellion was when he came over from a modest career in Man's Best productions and before he went on to bigger things as Pavel Dubcek with William Higgins. Max is a farmer boy who is tending his herd and his hut when he's visited by the sweetly beautiful bad-boy Ion Davidov and his sexpig buddy Dano Sulik. Ion's already signaled his intentions with a pair of cut-offs that let his cock show clearly, while Dano is primed for action as the three of them have lunch. But it's Max, younger and more boyish, his tight cut-off jeans accenting a spectacular ass and even more appetizing crotch, who gets the juices roiling here. In no time the three find themselves horsing around in a straw-strewn manger, stripping each other and diving for cock. All service each other hungrily and all cum in cascades of Eastern European spermatozoa before the fucking begins. Here it's Max, often the teaching top, who is the subject of the pounding -- first sucking on Dano while Ion power-drives him and then serving as a receptacle for Dano's twitching log. Then as Dano plows Max missionary, Ion slips his prime meat up Dano's pucker -- which has never been so firm, round or beautiful. The scene ends in another goo-gusher.
Erik Kovac and Michal Tarkus take us on the first reprise of "Frisky Summer 3" (1998) in which they tease each other into a tryst on a small bridge over a creek. Erik is his usual handsome, if also slightly arrogant top-self, here seducing the mighty-dicked Michal, whose spotted headscarf and swarthy face make him an unlikely Bel Ami bottom -- but bottom he does, but not until he's first filled Erik's mouth with meat, and splooging all over his shirt, and then using his own oral talents to bring off his handsome boyfriend before turning his butt around for a pummeling. Erik does his usual spanky stuff as a top here, but it's Michal who steals the scene with his ease of accommodation, lifting his left leg up on a bridge rail, forcing Erik to cum a second time, all over his butt -- which Michal duplicates in a jiff.
Erik does not seem satisfied with just one cute guy, as he and three others head off to a plunge in a nearby lake in another "Frisky Summer 3" scene, which ends up with one of them, Karl Tenner, cutting his foot and being carried back into the house by the others. Joining these two are the Ion Davidov and the exquisitely pretty Sergei Grigoriev. The quartet tumbles naked on a big bed in the cabin, where they test each other's testosterone before pairing off. Here Ion pops his pecker into Karl while Erik has his way with Sergei, who is so cute and sexually willing that it's a shame he didn't do more for this company. But what he does here is good enough to remember as he eats his way through Erik's crotch in a nicely framed sequence in which Karl gobbles Ion in the foreground. The natural tops do their thing and the two bottoms ride their buddies like cowboys as the scene comes to a splashy conclusion.
A quartet makes their way to an abandoned villa in another scene from "Frisky Summer 3." Two, the distinctly un-Bel Ami type Marco Rossini and the delicious Karl Moser, go off to explore the innards of the house while the other two, the incredibly lustful and beautiful blond sex glutton Justin Marino and the insatiable Gérard Killian stay behind to explore innards of their own choosing. Justin playfully seduces the lean marine machine Gérard with the help of a water bottle, then quickly drops to his knees to engulf Gérard's bottle-sized porker. Some beautiful shots of Justin sucking Gérard, shot from over the latter's shoulder, highlight this basic you-suck, me-suck, and I-fuck-you encounter between two of Bel Ami's more masculine looking models. Gérard blows a major wad all over Justin's face and chest before inducing the same reaction out of the sandy-blond, whose foreskin makes a delicious summer lunch for his buddy as he straddles the rail on the veranda while being serviced. Gérard then grabs onto the rail and offers his butt and body to his buddy for a rousing standing-doggy-fuck. Meanwhile, Marco and Karl have found a terrace of their own. The lanky, sandy-haired Karl, whose classic Germanic looks are a sharp contrast to the swarthy Marco (who wears his long frizzed hair in a ponytail), sports one of the straightest and longest dicks in the flick, a fact which does not go unnoticed by Marco during his oral savorings which bring forth a smashing climax from the peaceful Karl. Marco, who sports a fat wad of wood himself, then leans back for Karl's oral affections, getting harder and harder until he's ready to apply that wanker to the blond's butt, which he does in a standing-doggy that brings moans of ecstasy from both and a warm sperm bath all over Karl's butt.
The last scene, from "Cherries" (2000), is one of the classic Bel Ami trysts. It begins with two lovely specimens of their Russian heritage, the lean, baby-faced Oleg Vronski and the broad-faced insatiable bottom Vadim Hausman, who are trolling through the woods, grabbing and kissing, rolling in the leaves and then eating each other's cocks in a glen. They stop their sexual trolling for a while when they hear another couple in the woods, and move to a tree house where they spy on the newcomers, Mirko Polakov and Jeff Markovich, Czech boys who are oddly of the same type, and look, as Oleg and Vadim, respectively. I'm not sure if Bel Ami impresario George Duroy did this deliberately, but the resemblance between the two couples is strong enough to lead the viewer to imagine that in viewing Mirko and Jeff making love under a makeshift hut, in which they explore each other and Mirko fucks his buddy sidesaddle, Oleg and Vadim might be imagining themselves doing the same thing. So, they do -- they repair to a cottage where they kiss deliciously, explore each other's cocks and bodies, and then offer us a loving copulation with Oleg, a widely acclaimed and experienced bottom, gives Vadim the screwing of his life in several positions, of which the missionary is the juiciest. This languid, almost off-handed scene turns into a potboiler, and serves to remind us that Duroy is always full of surprises -- he may not literally pull things out of his own ass, but he certainly knows how to get his models to stuff enough of them on their own.
DVD features: An easy-to-navigate menu; chapter selections; model galleries; and no regional coding (playable worldwide).
A DVD Review by Bo Champion