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Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

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Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut
A Film by Tinto Brass
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 1,85:1 | 16:9 | 720x576 | 02:07:43 | 5% Recovery | 6.8 GB
Languages Available: German, English, Italian 2.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English, German
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Trailers
Genre: Drama | 2 Nominations

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.

IMDB Rating: 5.4/10

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Salon Kitty is a 1976 erotic-drama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was coproduced by Italy, France and West Germany. It is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Norden, covering the real life events of the Salon Kitty Incident, where the Sicherheitsdienst took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped and all the prostitutes replaced with trained spies in order to gather data on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries. It is considered among the progenitors of Nazisploitation genre

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Tinto Brass scored his first major international success with this shocking but stylish tale of decadence in the Third Reich, inspired by a true story. Madame Kitty (Ingrid Thulin) is the proprietor of one of Berlin's most luxurious brothels, where many members of the Nazi high command are her regular customers. Kitty is approached by Helmut Wallenberg (Helmut Berger), an S.S. official who orders her to shut down her business and act as his partner as he founds a new bordello, which will exclusively cater to the elite of the Nazi Party and the German military.

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Unknown to Kitty, Wallenberg's brothel has been staffed entirely by women recruited by the S.S. for their loyalty to the Reich, and each room has been equipped with secret recording devices, which will allow Wallenberg and his staff to not only gather blackmail material against troublesome officers, but to discover who might be expressing disloyal thoughts about Hitler's regime when their guard is down.

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy), a pretty young prostitute working for Kitty, is especially devoted to both her job and her country, but when she falls in love with Biondo (John Steiner), a German officer and frequent customer who has grown disillusioned with both the war and National Socialism, she discovers the true purpose of "Salon Kitty," and sets out to destroy the operation, with Kitty's help. Both a scandal and a success in Europe, Salon Kitty initially played the exploitation circuit in the United States in an edited version titled Madame Kitty, though the shorter version still earned an X rating.

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Love it or hate it, there's no arguing that Salon Kitty is not your standard-issue exploitation movie about the kinky underside of Nazi Germany. Produced on a lavish budget, and featuring several reasonably well-respected actors (most notably Helmut Berger and Ingrid Thulin), Salon Kitty is several noticeable steps up on the food chain from grind-house efforts such as Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS or S.S. Love Camp No. 27, but at the same time director Tinto Brass was clearly unafraid to push the kink level and gross-out factors as far as he could.

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Beyond the expected cross-dressing and S & M diversions, Salon Kitty includes onscreen animal slaughter, women forced to have sex with hunchbacked dwarves and subhuman giants, and a chorus line of naked prostitutes "seig heil"-ing en masse before being put to the test by a gang of randy S.S. officers. While the film stops just short of hardcore, the near-constant nudity (both male and female) and continual parade of sexual and emotional perversity insures this movie would never get an R rating, at least not in its uncut form.

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

While based on a true story, Salon Kitty is for the most part played so over the top that it's hard to read as anything but a fantastic worst-case scenario of Third Reich deviance on parade (embodied by the icy hysteria of Berger's Officer Wallenberg). However, Brass makes occasional efforts to humanize the proceedings, most notably through the romance between jaded soldier Biondo (John Steiner) and semi-idealistic call girl Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy) and the relentless good cheer of Madame Kitty (Thulin) (whose obvious similarities to Marlene Dietrich are played up by Annie Ross' Blue Angel-inspired vocals in the English-dubbed version).

Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Salon Kitty is difficult to take seriously as history, and it's too grim in its sadism and thematic implications to enjoy as a glossy slice of softcore porn; it's an undeniably well-crafted bit of feel-bad entertainment, but for every moment where it sets itself up as a cautionary tale, there's another where Brass rubs our nose in this elegant sleaze seemingly just for the hell of it. If nothing else, Salon Kitty gave Brass the ideal dry run for his next project, the infamous Caligula.



Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut

Special features
• Trailer
• US Trailers

From Wikipedia


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ORIGINAL TITLE: Salon Kitty
GENRE: Drama, Political
YEAR: 1975
DIRECTOR: Tinto Brass
SCREENPLAY: Tinto Brass, Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco
ACTORS: Tina Aumont, Helmut Berger, Bekim Fehmiu, Rose Marie Lindt, Maria Michi, Teresa Ann Savoy, Stefano Satta Flores, Sara Sperati, John Steiner, Paola Senatore, Ingrid Thulin, John Ireland

PHOTOGRAPHY: Silvano Ippoliti
ASSEMBLY: Tinto Brass
MUSIC: Fiorenzo Carpi
PRODUCTION: CORALTA
DISTRIBUTION: Titanus - CREATIONS HOME VIDEO, VIDEO MONDADORI
COUNTRY: Italy
DURATION: 130 Min
SIZE: OVERVIEW Eastmancolor




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Salon Kitty (1976) Director's Cut