Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 / The Summer I Turned 15 - Norway (1976)

The film is based upon the youth novel by Knut Faldbakken, and is about a boy sensing his first real sexual feelings. Directed by Knut Andersen, it became a good and well told coming of age story. Peter has become in the age where he starts noticing sexual tension and what’s going on around. Like noticing that his aunt and uncle also quarrels, when they think he is not noticing. He also discovers that his uncle is having an affair. Together with a comrade the same age, he uses time looking at old erotic magazines. But the real important thing is when he meets up with a girl his same age and a 6-7 year older single mother which is not afraid to bathe naked, both giving him his first real sexual feelings and sexual experiences.
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