Katja Bienert was nude throughout the movie Diamonds of Kilimandjaro 1983, 1080p (time stamps for hottest scenes are 17:23 | 27:02 | 1:07:30

Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983) [CC] (1080p) | with time stamps for hot scenes

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A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe’s goddess.

REVIEW (1) — Best of a bad lot

Jesus Franco made many bad films, and some of the worst were the ones he did with the ultra-cheapskate French outfit Eurocine. It is a chance to see Franco regular Katja Beinert in a role that might actually be legal by US standards. I doubt this movie will appeal too much to the “barely legal” crowd though as Bienert seems to have sprung from the womb with a body that would put any 25-year-old woman to shame, and all she really does is wander around in nothing but a ridiculously low-riding loincloth for most of the film.

Biernert plays a female version of Tarzan who is adopted by a tribe of Africans along with her godfather after their plane crashes in the deep jungle. This tribe is so pathetic that they not only worship a teenage white girl as a goddess, but also make her drunken Scottish stereotype of a godfather their “Big White Chief”. The one rebellious tribes-member meanwhile is about the same age as Beinert and looks like Lisa Bonet circa 1987. The “plot” begins when some mercenaries looking for the titular diamonds stumble across the barely-legal white jungle girl. They return with some of her relatives who are planning to kill her to get their hands on the inheritance of her sickly, dying mother (Lina Romay, in a highly unusual role given that it was the height of her hardcore porn career). It would have made a lot more sense to pay the mercenaries to just keep quiet, rather than to follow them into the jungle to kill the girl, but, oh well.

There is much less violence than the earlier Franco/Eurocine cannibal films. The only real sex scenes come courtesy of the luscious mistress (Maria Nieto) of one of Bienert’s greedy relatives, who gets so turned on after being nearly eaten by stock footage of a crocodile while skinny-dipping that she drags one of the mercenaries (Anthony Mayans) into the weeds for some afternoon delight while Biernert’s character curiously watches them. Mayans, playing the most out-of-shape mercenary in cinema history, later also takes a roll in the hay with the jungle girl but off-screen (probably a good thing as there are already WAY too many shots of his flabby ass in this movie).

This is not good by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a pretty harmless movie (aside from a couple sex scenes and National Geographic-style nudity, it could have gotten a PG rating in America). It has serviceable plot, occasional drama, and a setting that you can sometimes believe is NOT just a European zoo. And it’s “Citizen Kane” compared to the other Franco film (“Golden Temple Amazons”)it’s paired up with in Shriek Show’s new “Jungle Girls” box set.

Also known as
Finland (video box title) | Afrikan saalistajat
(original title) | El tesoro de la diosa blanca
Turkey (Turkish title) (alternative title) | Kilimandjaro’nun Elmasları
France | Les diamants du Kilimanjaro
Germany (DVD title) | Mondo Cannibale – Nackt unter Wilden
Germany (DVD box title) | Mondo cannibale 4.Teil: Nackt unter Wilden
Germany (DVD title) | Mondo Kannibalen
Greece (DVD title) | O thisavros tis lefkis theas
World-wide (English title) | The Treasure of the White Goddess
Soviet Union (Russian title) | Сокровища белой богини

REVIEW (2) — Scummy!

This trip through the libido and madness of Jess Franco finds a diamond treasure – Jess loves diamonds almost as much as showing you the love of his life’s lady parts in zoomtastic details – and a lost white girl amongst the natives – naked, unafraid, with a pet monkey and all of 16 years old, as Katja Bienert was way too young to be in one of his movies at this point.

Filled with stock footage, an editing error that shows the same scene twice, a scene where the crew can be seen – another Franco trademark? – and as always, Franco had already made this movie kinda sorta as White Cannibal Queen, so if you’ve watched more than fifty of his movies in fourteen days – do not walk the left hand path I have stepped down – it all starts to blend together.

Katja’s dad leads the tribe, by the way, and he’s Scottish because he wears skirts and plays bagpipes and only leaves his room for whiskey. He’s also composer Daniel White, who for some reason decided that this movie needed bongos and synth, which is probably half right and all wrong.

Look, if you’ve never seen a Franco movie or want someone to watch one with you, don’t make it this one. Venus In Furs? That’s probably the best one, but it’s still deranged. So is Vampyros Lesbos. Still, if you find someone who’ll sit for 80 minutes of bad editing, landscape shots, tree swinging and Lina Romay in old woman makeup, you’ve won life.