WARNING!
Vilem Cage
Distributor | Released | Length |
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Kristen Bjorn Video | 2003 | 120 |
Distributor | Released | Length |
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Kristen Bjorn Video | 2003 | 120 |
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Description source: promotional material
Inspired by the opera Cavalleria Rustica by Giovanni Verga, Lucas Kazan has created a colorful and highly erotic 'love gone bad' epic, with picturesque Sicily as the backdrop. The men are muscular and gorgeous, the sex sizzles, and there's enough cum to sail an ocean liner in this beautifully filmed erotic masterpiece
The story begins with a flashback of Sasha and Foz walking and romping along the waterfront, surrounded by fishmongers and boats, in a brilliantly edited prelude to a scene of incredible passion in a circus tent, Foz descends on Sasha's crotch to admire an already stiffening, thick, bulbous cock, ready for sucking, which Alfio does with inspiration. Foz turns Sasha around to hold onto the ladder as he finger-fucks, then licks, the beautiful boy's butt, bringing his lover to spurt cum in a no-hands explosion. Foz then moves up the ladder to position his dark uncut cock even with Luca's hungry mouth, The cock pulsates upwards, then spurts into a torrent of very thick, white cum. Sasha then fucks the daylights out of Foz, while hanging onto the ladder. Foz then sits on Sashas's cock for a back-to-front sit-fuck that brings him to another climax, Luca spurting white gobs below him as well. Still hard, Foz places Sasha doggy-style on a circus stand and slips his pole up his willing hole before flipping him over and finishing him off missionary -- Luca has a no-hands cum-shot while Alfio gently pumps his ass, and then Alfio spills another great gob all over his lover's crotch.
Another couple of lovers, however, have a different type of encounter -- passion out of jealousy, Sicilian style – Federico Bulsara pursues Vilem Cage to an outdoor bar,Vilem has been cruising Jorge Del Toro, an exotic bull of a man who is shirtless, and ready to fuck, Vilem leads Jorge to a picnic area where they start to make love, the three of them whipping out cocks and kissing each other. The thre men create a suck ladder, each with a hot dick in his mouth. Vilmen then fucks Federico doggy while Jorge fills Federico's mouth with fat cock -- until the dominants switch positions on Federico who quickly brings Vilem to a climax while spilling his own no-hands seed as Jorge continues to fuck him from behind. Then Vilem fucks Jorge while sit-fucking Federico front-to-back. Federico does another no-hander, Jorge splatters Vilem as the latter pumps his cock, and Federico pumping Vilem's monster to throw a huge load all over his legs, crotch and balls.
Back in the circus tent Ettore Tosi wanders in on a four-way featuring the blond muscle boy Tiziano Cortese, the versatile Ivan Andros, the exotic Mario Perez, and sultry Milton Abdalla are doing all sorts of wonderful things with each other's cocks. Abdalla holds the fort on his knees sucking each cock presented to him until they all spurt. Then the guys pair off with Abdalla fucking Andros missionary until they both cum while Cortese plows Lopez doggy until the blond spills. Lopez then rides Cortese's cock in a face-to-face sit-fuck while Abdalla rides Andros close by, back-to-front. They finish off with Cortese pumping himself to cumming, and Lopez and Abdalla fucking Andros missionary style until they both fire off huge loads.
Sasha kisses and licks Vilem, working his way down to his lover's crotch, where he pulls out the shaft of love -- strong, upturned, thick and ready for love. Sasha spends an enormous amount of time licking and kissing Vilem's cock, balls and crotch before taking it in his mouth. This drives Vilem wild, so that Sasha finally brings him off with into a thick, cascading stream of cum which runs down over the younger man's cheeks. Vilem then drops to his own knees to return the favor, pumping the member until his lover's cock spills out a load down his shaft. Vilem then attacks Sasha's lips with passionate kisses, bringing pleased smile from him before bending him over and sticking his hot Czech sausage up the Russian's pliable asshole. He fucks him deep and long, then slides the two of them into a sidesaddle position, until Vilem spills yet another fine load on the other man's balls.
If one can accuse a director who bases a gay porn flick on one of the most beloved of all Italian operas as toying with conceit, then when the director pulls it off (excuse the innuendo), a reviewer not only has the obligation to bow to his brilliance, but also to lead the chorus of "Bravos!" from the balcony. Lucas Kazan has made what may very well be the most beautiful, erotic and perfectly cast "based on other material" gay porn flick I have ever seen -- and, honey, I go back to well before "Gayracula," which was awful, by the way. That Kazan earns these kudos after having already conceived and directed such masterpieces as "Hotel Italia," "American Holidays," and "Out in Tuscany," as well as the operatic adaptation of "L'Elisir D'Amore," is really no surprise. He has been moving toward this kind of achievement with every new twist on what has become his underlying theme: Put handsome, big-dicked, horny men who like to fuck other men in any part of Italy, and you are likely to get heat equal to eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna combined. Under the auspices of the legendary Kristen Bjorn's Sarava Productions, Kazan has produced a volcanic epic.
The conceit here is Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" (1890), a tale of love and intrigue in Sicily, an island with a culture of love and intrigue -- and more than a bit of violence. The plot is astonishingly simple, and it has been trans-gendered by Kazan with several brilliant strokes, including a cast which reflects the wide diversity of the Sicilian people, who can trace their ancestries to not only Italy but also Spain, the Holy Roman Empire (Germany-Austria-Hungary), Morocco and Greece. Here is how the opera's plot is briefly described, edited to reflect how Kazan has changed the women into men:
Turiddu had been in love with Lola (Luca in this version), but he went into the army, and by the time he returned, Lola (Luca) had married (taken up with) Alfio. Turiddu took up with Santuzza (Santo) on the rebound, who fell deeply in love with him. But Lola (Luca) was jealous and seduced Turiddu away, leaving Santuzza (Santo) without love and without honor. Get it? Oh, you will, just by watching how Kazan uses the camera, faces and the score of the opera, to tell a tale that's so timeless, and yet so suspenseful, because, after all, this is a gay skin flick and you want to know who's going to end up fucking whom.
Kazan introduces the main characters as a plot device, identifying each actor as well. The movie is done in brief flashback, opening with Santo (Federico Bulsara, an Italian) running through an old hill town looking for his lover Turiddu (Vilem Cage, a Czech), whom he spies making love to Turiddu's former lover, Luca (Alexander Byazrov, a Russian). This is followed by Luca's current lover, Alfio (Lucas Foz, a Spaniard), who has followed them all to discover Luca's betrayal of him.
Overcoming any apprehension in this plotting is the casting. In Vilem Cage, we have the quintessential European cad, a man who is so irresistible to everyone that all he has to do is raise his eyebrow a mere millimeter and someone is on their knees eating away at his beautiful cock. Cage, who gained stardom in director Jan Novak's Studio 2000 release "The Back Room," has appeared in several Kazan productions since then. He gives the finest performance of his career here because it is so much more nuanced and filled with what can only be described as lust. Often the object of desire in his roles, and therefore somewhat controlling and distant, here he uses that quality to seduce and then ravage his lovers with pure pleasure reeking out of every pore. Even though he does not bottom here, you get the distinct impression that he wanted to, and that's a huge plus for this flick. Byazrov, whose pouty lips and lusty mane make him look more and more like a younger Josh Brolin, son of Hollywood actor James Brolin, is extraordinarily versatile here, a walking sexual time bomb whose cock seems to want to push through his jeans even as he is strolling hand in hand through the fishmonger's market with his lover of the moment. Bulsara, who is as beautiful as he is stereotypically Italianate, spends a great deal of the movie "weeping and gnashing teeth" -- and gets away with it because he can, indeed, act as well as make love, suck cock and take it up the ass. And Foz, whose role is multi-dimensional and requires energy and acting ability, as well as sexual prowess, reveals himself as a demi-god of lust in a role into which he immerses himself, rivaling Cage for the honor of stealing the whole video.
The real action begins with a flashback of Luca and Alfio walking and romping along the waterfront, surrounded by fishmongers and boats, in a brilliantly edited and scored prelude to a scene of incredible passion in a circus tent, which becomes a central venue for the movie's love scenes. Here they hold and kiss each other against a ladder, undressing each other slowly, piece by piece (the clothes in the video are carefully chosen to reveal just enough before revealing all). Alfio descends on Luca's crotch to admire an already stiffening, thick, bulbous cock, jutting out from a naturally large bush of hair, ready for sucking, which Alfio does with inspiration. Foz, as Alfio, is a great cocksucker here, and keeps Byazrov, as Luca, quietly gasping as he holds his arms up and over the ladder -- piano and violin music accentuating slight licking noises, which heighten when the two begin kissing again. Alfio turns Luca around to hold onto the ladder as he finger-fucks, then licks, the beautiful boy's butt, bringing his lover to spurt cum in a no-hands explosion. This inspires Alfio to move up the ladder to position his dark uncut cock even with Luca's hungry mouth, and after an extensive bit of licking and sliding up and down the side of the shaft, Luca pulls Alfio's cock right down his throat, bringing deep gasps of pleasure from his lover as the cock pulsates upwards, then spurts into a torrent of very thick, very white cum. With the music seeming to inspire more passion, Luca turns Alfio around, bends him over, helps him lift his right leg onto a rung, and sends his now rock-hard pole up his lover's waiting ass. Excellent camera angles through Alfio's legs, with his semi-erect uncut cock swinging from his hairy crotch, are scored with his encouragement in Spanish before, now rock-hard, he descends on Luca's cock for a back-to-front sit-fuck that brings him to another climax, Luca spurting white gobs below him as well. Still hard, Alfio places Luca doggy-style on a circus stand and slips his pole up his willing hole before flipping him over and finishing him off missionary -- Luca has a no-hands cum-shot while Alfio gently pumps his ass, and then Alfio spills another great gob all over his lover's crotch. A three-peat!
Another couple of lovers, however, are about to have a different type of encounter -- passion out of jealousy, Sicilian style -- and it's set up and played brilliantly as Santo (Bulsara) pursues Turiddu (Cage) to an outdoor bar where he berates him, questioning where he was the night before. Turiddu has been cruising Jorge Del Toro, an exotic bull of a man who is shirtless, and ready to fuck, at the bar, where bartender Marco and bystander Ettore Tosi watch questioningly. With Santo hanging all over him, Turridu leads Jorge to a picnic area where they start to make love, the three of them whipping out cocks and kissing each other. Santo must have his Turiddu, even if he has to share him, and it is here that Cage, as Turridu, shows us the first indication of how he has evolved. With his lover behind him groping his cock, Turridu remains fixated on the bull, pulling his cock out, pumping it, and then in a clever head-on shot, is the first one to eat cock. He is so consumed by his appetite that his lover is forced to move to the picnic table, stand on it, and feed his cock to Jorge, who shows a mad desire for cock, taking Santo's down to the pubes while Turridu does the same to his fat uncut porker. In due course, the three reposition themselves on another bench, with Santo feeding Turridu and Jorge feasts on Turiddu's hot cock.
Suddenly, Kazan departs from the park back to the circus tent where Ettore Tosi wanders in on a four-way featuring the splendid blond muscle boy Tiziano Cortese, the internationally versatile Iván Andros, and the diminutively exotic Mario Lopez and Milton Abdalla are doing all sorts of wonderful things with each other's cocks. It's a bit of a jolt, but one supposes that this is a sly play on Kazan's part to a central section of the original opera in which the crowd goes off to pray at mass, around which their lives revolve. Well, in this Sicilian town, it's cock, and men sucking cock, which is central to life, and we now have a series of cuts between the four-way in the tent and the three-way in the picnic area. Abdalla holds the fort in the first part of the four-way, on his knees sucking each cock presented to him until they all spurt (shot from below -- these men are hung!). There are only sounds of sex here, as there are when we return to the picnic table which has Turiddu fucking Santo doggy while Jorge fills Santo's mouth with fat cock -- until the dominants switch positions on Santo who quickly brings Turiddu to a climax while spilling his own no-hands seed as Jorge continues to fuck him from behind. Back in the circus tent, the boys have paired off with Abdalla fucking Andros missionary until they both cum while Cortese plows Lopez doggy until the blond spills -- both on the same couch. At the picnic grounds, Turiddu is sucking Jorge while sit-fucking Santo front-to-back. This is the best cum scene in the movie as Santo does another no-hander (his slightly bent-down, uncut cock is a fountain to behold), Jorge splatters Turiddu as the latter pumps his cock, and Santo pumping Turiddu's monster to throw the movie's biggest load all over his legs, crotch and balls. But, we're not done at the circus. Lopez is now riding Cortese's cock in a face-to-face sit-fuck while Abdalla rides Andros close by, back-to-front. They finish off with Cortese pumping himself to cumming, and Lopez and Abdalla fucking Andros missionary on the circus table.
Walking through town afterwards, hand in hand, Santo keeps pleading with Turiddu to stay true to him, but when Luca passes by -- both realize it's all over. He takes out his cellphone and calls Alfio to tell him, in typical Sicilian style, what his boyfriend is doing. What follows is a beautifully edited series of love making vignettes with Santo and Turiddu, then Turiddu and Luca, followed by Santo careening lovesick and brokenhearted alone, with the opera's main love theme echoing in the soundtrack. It's simply sensational, and leads to an extended, lust filled finale in a blue room with Turiddu and Luca coming together for their major scene.
It is time to switch to their real names to make the point: Naked, Byazrov, as Luca, kisses and licks Cage, as Turiddu, who is clad only in briefs, working his way down to his new lover's crotch, where he pulls out the shaft of love -- strong, upturned, thick and ready for love. Like he did in the first scene with Alfio (Foz), Byazrov spends an enormous amount of time licking and kissing Cage's cock, balls and crotch before taking it in his mouth. This drives Cage, who appears to be in adoration of his new lover, absolutely crazy, so that when Byazrov finally brings him off with into a thick, cascading stream of sticky cum which runs down his shaft and over the younger man's cheeks, Cage reverts to English -- "Yes! Yes! Yes!" he cries, and spent, brings Byazrov up to kiss him, and then drops to his own knees to return the favor. There comes a point in each porn star's career where he turns a corner, and in this instant, it's Vilem Cage's turn. Being a Czech, he has some shoes to fill, and some habits to overcome. Herein, he puts to lie the canard that Czech male stars are tippy-tipsters when it comes to sucking cock -- throughout this movie, and in this scene, he makes love to cock, going as deep as he can, pumping the member and paying attention to what his partner wants, until his lover's cock spills out a load down his shaft, over Cage's fist. He then rises, and attacks Byazrov's lips with passionate kisses, bringing a palpable, pleased smile from him before bending him over and sticking his hot Czech sausage up the Russian's pliable asshole. He fucks him deep and long, then slides the two of them into a sidesaddle position, where the camera gives us great pleasure from several angles, all of which is accented by the pleasure both of them appear to be having from this fabulously choreographed fuck which lasts forever, but which we hope never ends. But it does, with Cage spilling yet another fine load on the other man's balls.
Later, Alfio, still smarting from Santo's phone call, makes a beeline for a courtyard, where Turiddu has to enter in order to get home. They see each other, and instant lust overcomes Turiddu once again -- this time, he'll be fucking the man from whom he took Luca. But, we know better. Before Turiddu arrived, Alfio had tucked a switchblade into his jeans. While embracing Alfio in a passionate kiss, Turiddu's world ends, with the last line from the opera ringing across the screen and in the subtitles -- you'll have to see the movie to find out. It's perfect.
This movie works on every level, but I think it might be most remembered a few years from now as the one which brought Vilem Cage to the forefront of the charismatic, macho Czech male porn stars, on the same level as Lukas Ridgeston, Jan Dvorak and the little-used Ladislav Pekar (he actually looks like the love child of the latter two). The fact that he has yet to bottom on screen only adds to the sense of anticipation for his next effort. In this movie, he moves well beyond trade, however, to become an actor, and a consummate cocksman. Combined with an extraordinary orchestration by Lukas Kazan of an enormously talented cast and crew, and with musicians Andrea Ruscelli on piano and Sebastiano Severi Conti on cello playing some of the world's most romantic music, "A Sicilian Tale" is a movie you simply cannot refuse.
The DVD version includes the full-length feature; interactive menus; chapter selections; slide-show gallery, and no regional coding.
A DVD Review by Bo Champion