Fantasm (1976)

Director
Richard Franklin

Main cast
Dee Dee Levitt; Maria Arnold; William Margold; Rene Bond; Con Covert

Genres
Comedy

Description
Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female sexual fantasies.


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