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Salon Kitty
1976
This is Tinto Brass' own director's cut with many scenes previously cut now reinserted. Based on a true story, as war breaks out, SS officer Wallemberg replaces the girls in Kitty's high-class Berlin brothel with Nazi volunteers, including Margherita. He bugs all the rooms in order to blackmail high-ranking patrons. Wallemberg .. Read more
| Starring | Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner |
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| Director | Tinto Brass |
| Genres | World Cinema |
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Salon Kitty
This is Tinto Brass' own director's cut with many scenes previously cut now reinserted. Based on a true story, as war breaks out, SS officer Wallemberg replaces the girls in Kitty's high-class Berlin brothel with Nazi volunteers, including Margherita. He bugs all the rooms in order to blackmail high-ranking patrons. Wallemberg falls for Margherita, who instead loves Captain Reiter. Wallemberg has him killed and Margherita turns to Kitty for help. Together, they obtain evidence of Wallemberg's own treason and he is executed..
| Starring | Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner, John Ireland |
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| Director | Tinto Brass |
| Studio | ARGENT FILMS LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 13 mins Watch now: 2 hrs 13 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Genres | World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: English Watch Online: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Apr 2005 Watch now: 30 Oct 2009 Production year: 1976 |
| Watch now | Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. |
| Format | DVD |
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The international success of Cabaret and The Night Porter prompted the Italian film industry to do what it does best: copy a successful formula but add loads of sex and violence. In independent director Giovanni Tinto Brass's trashy tale of fascist decadence in Berlin in 1939, young women are trained to entertain Nazi officers with degrading perversions in the famous high-class brothel of the title. But, unknown to madam Ingrid Thulin, the place has been bugged by SS thug Helmut Berger to spy on the Third Reich's own men. A wild and arty mix of graphic sex, nudity, fetishistic art direction, heavy-handed political statements and gore, this trendsetter spawned a rash of nasty Nazi exploitation flicks.
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Masquerading as an essay on decadence and Fascism, this predictably speculative slice of Nazi sex is aimed squarely at... read more on Time Out
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29 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Power, Corruption and Lies
Set in Berlin in 1939, an ambitious SS officer, Wallenberg (Helmut Berger) sets up a brothel to be used as a means of spying on other officers and soldiers. Wallenberg recruits a number of attractive young women, all staunch National Socialists to work as prostitutes. They are ordered to report back to him on the sexual proclivities and indiscreet talk of their cutomers. Unbeknown to the women and the madame, Kitty (Ingrid Thulin), the bedrooms are bugged and their activities are being recorded.
Made in 1976, this film directed by Tinto Brass has only appeared in the U.K. in heavily censored versions. This director's cut has an additional 21 minutes of previously unseen material. The sexual content is not hardcore, but it is still quite strong and at times, disturbing. For example, the women are placed naked in locked cells with partners who are mentally unbalanced, deformed or violent. Wallenberg reasons that this will test their capacity to have sex with strangers, regardless of looks or temperament.
Teresa Ann Savoy also stars as the girl that Wallenberg fixates upon from the group, and on whom he takes out his own sexual inadequacies.
I remember seeing a cut version of this film some years ago on video. At the time, I was not overly impressed. However, this restored version is far superior and deserves to be seen. Some of the dialogue is patchy, particularly where there are overdubs: some actors are speaking in English, some are not.
This film is not as relentlessly nasty as Pasolini's 'Salo' (highly recommended for those with strong stomachs); but almost thirty years after its original release, this version of 'Salon Kitty' is powerful and shocking. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Social History
As a film (soft core porn) this has its points, otherwise this is a rather boring socio-historical drama that unless you are interested in the Nazi party and how it worked will bore you to death.
Watch it for its titilation, watch it for its historical bias, but don't think you'll be entertained otherwise, boring to the point of death. -
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