Salon Kitty

1976 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / War

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 5545 5.5K

eroticism nazi germany

Plot summary

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Director

Tinto Brass Photo
Tinto Brass

Top cast

John Ireland Photo
John Ireland as Cliff
Helmut Berger Photo
Helmut Berger as Helmut Wallenberg
Teresa Ann Savoy Photo
Teresa Ann Savoy as Margherita
Rosemarie Lindt Photo
Rosemarie Lindt as Susan
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1.2 GB
1280*688
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 6
2.22 GB
1904*1024
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by vampire_hounddog 5 / 10

THE Nazisploitation classic that has a sense of style

An SS officer (Helmut Berger) uses a notorious upscale bordello off the Kurfurstendanstrasse with loyal party prostitutes to spy on its clients for the State. As the war progresses it becomes a place with growing suspicion and paranoia.Tinto Brass's notorious erotic movie is based off a real bordello that was for a while operated by none other than the high ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich. The film of course focuses on nudity and the erotic, but it is also very stylish looking with some wonderful Art Deco sets designed by none other than the great art director famous for his James Bond films, Ken Adam, with costumes designed by Ugo Pericoli and Jost Jacob. In many senses the brothel acts as an analogy and a microcosm on how the war progressed for Germany making it one of the more intelligent Nazisploitation films. Of course it fetishises the Nazis and becomes quite bizarre in places as the film develops.
Reviewed by Jonny_Numb 5 / 10

Proof that even exploitation can be boring...

Of all the sordid, exploitative Nazi-era cash-ins that came out of the 1970s, "Salon Kitty" is one of the most regularly-mentioned titles. Director Tinto Brass (who, like Joe D'Amato, is more renowned for his porno epics) spends a great deal of time--arguably 3/4 of the film--garnishing the screen with images of decadent excess, including bizarre sex acts, deformed dwarfs, and copious nudity. Unfortunately, that's really all this shallow, 2-hours-plus venture has to offer. The story line--consisting of a young Nazi commandant (the underused Helmut Berger)'s attempt to seize power by eavesdropping on the SS patrons of the titular character's high-class brothel--would take up all of 30 minutes' screen time (and even that is a stretch) had the exploitation elements been removed. What we're left with, then, is a slickly-made trash pic with high production values, a good cast, and an insufferably drawn-out story (I challenge anyone to still give a damn by the time the film reaches its 'revelatory' crescendo); Brass's attempts at prurient titillation, an underdeveloped (and ultimately pointless) romantic subplot, and the fearless courage of icily unlikable prostitute Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy) fall completely flat, much to the film's detriment. While not as luridly exploitative as the "Ilsa" trilogy, nor as lethargically dull as Luchino Visconti's "The Damned," "Salon Kitty" never really manages the suspense, pathos, and passion that marked Liliana Cavani's superior 1974 post-Holocaust romance, "The Night Porter." It's a film that should have been much more than just a ponderously average pile of celluloid.
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