The Fruit Is Ripe (German: Griechische Feigen) is a 1977 German erotic comedy film directed by Sigi Rothemund. In this sex comedy, a good-looking German girl goes on vacation in Greece, and a large number of people try to get her to go to bed with them. With a light, teasing manner, she turns all of them down, until at last she meets a boy she really likes. - Patricia is a free-spirited and unrestrained girl who travels through Greece on an erotic odyssey. Her parents give her a flight ticket to return to Munich, where she is to continue her studies. Instead she gives the ticket away and stays in Greece. During this time she gets to know many men and women with whom she plays pranks and experiences erotic adventures. At some point, she meets the sailor Tom, who makes a trip through the Aegean Sea, urinating while standing and learning to love Tom. She talks her experiences on a tape. Tom leaves after an argument, but comes back to the end of the film with her. (Classical erotica)

Ivan Gromov (Dmitry Soloviev) is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war when a parachute with a cartridge fell on his head. Subsequently, he is forced to tell the story of his life to an army psychiatrist. This device allows ironic distance on the part of the I-narrator Ivan to the events told in the ensuing retrospective of the film. Soloviev further parodies the events through the use of music and intertitles with high-browse quotes on everyday events. In the style of Assa and Black Rose, Soloviev here again manages to portray an accurate, yet ironic picture of the young generation in the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union. While in Assa and Black Rose he was referring to the present, he demonstrates in Tender Age his ability to use the same devices of film narrative to portray the past.