Salon Kitty [ 1976 ] Extended Director's Cut [ Remastered Widescreen }

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After watching the movie I asked myself "Why the hell did I buy it?" And I did not find an answer as yet! Here my unfiltered impressions:The first 30 minutes are disgusting. Is this what humans are capable of? – Since the movie is based on a true story the answer has to be Yes! And it did and does happen in situations of uncontrolled abuse of power where the means are only justified by he ends.Using the playing field of a brothel in the third Reich the movie describes power plays between humans in various positions of power.On the lower end of power is the blind follower of ideology presented by the Nazi girls donating their bodies/dignity to the greater cause. On the upper end is the SS officer Wallenberg, who is given the power by the system and who also uses it for his own personal wants. (Which, by the way, any person in real life does, only with different means.) Watch Kitty the saloonkeeper, how she plays along in the beginning to keep her standing, not without claiming high level power connections. There are the salon customers who are unknowingly giving away their power sources by giving in to their sexual desires.To which genre does this move belong? There is plenty of nudity, some suspense and not too much action. Even though some of the girls are quite beautiful I could not enjoy the nudity, since some of it is just repulsive.The picture quality is mediocre. Small parts of the sound track are in Italian.To me the best element of the film is, that is thought provoking. Should you be interested in the key topic of the film, namely the use and abuse of power, I recommend the book “THE DICTATOR’S HANDBOOK”.

This film is an adult X film set in the beginning of WW2 in Berlin. The Nazis turn a bunch of women into prostitutes linked to a night club to spy on the tongues of unsuspecting other Nazis. This was made by Tinto Brass in Italy, a producer/director noted for sex films. This is the extended cut and that footage added that had no English soundtrack dubbing loops has English subtitles added to the screen at those times, otherwise an Italian and default English tracks are available. The person with the largest, by far, is the then young English runaway, Teresa Ann Savoy. I must say she is a delight and the best looker in the film. Savoy got a major part in Caligula when Maria Schneider left the production due to not wanting to do nude scence. Savoy seems to have in Italy with a family and no longer is in films. The film runs 133mins and it plenty gory in parts. In case you are wondering there appears to be only one quick intimate frontal flash of Savoy but there is an abundance of the rest of her body thru'out. Male nudity abounds.

Yes that's basical it; find an excuse to legitimize a porn movie. Pretend you are dramatising a War drama about the Nazi's. After all Nazi's, particulary the SS, make for good fetish foder.How well they did it begs the question.Facts: Well yes Salon Kitty did exist and was liscensed by the Nazi's, and they did uses it to spy and eves drop on their own officers to find out who couldn't keep secret what they knew and also who revealed themselves to being defeatist or anti Nazi. A few drinks inside them and a desire to impress the girl in bed with them, or an uncontrolable desire to get their deep fears and anxieties off their chest by telling a whore who's not really listening anyway, only she is, and not just her but microphones in the walls with recorders in other rooms.How much of the rest is true is anyones guess.As a movie it's typical seventies commercial soft porn, as a drama it slightly better than most others in this genre but compared to a larger studio production it's obviously a low budget independant with all the negative poor production values you'd expect.

The two star rating concerns the terrible blu-ray transfer:Image clarity and color stability are inferior to the Region 2 DVD I own.However, the sound of the blu-ray edition is markedly improved.To the film itself, I give 4.5 stars:Based on the historical fact of a high-class Berlin brothel that wascontrolled by the SD, director Tinto Brass created a provoking anddisturbing essay on the corrupting, degrading, and de-humanizing effectof absolute power over people.As he explains in an interview about the film, you cannot comment onextreme situations, without being extreme in your imagery.The slaughterhouse scene is pivotal in understanding what the filmsays about Fascism: Partly visible, and spattered with blood, is the infamousconcentration camp motto "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work sets you free).Then there's the boudoir scene where an SS prostitute indulges theperversions of the powerful elite, while images of Leni Riefenstahl'sNazi paean "Triumph des Willens" (1935) are projected on the wallsand over the girl's naked body. Triumph Of The Will (DVD) 2010 And there's the scene with the Jewish boy and his parents who visit an aquarium,although proscribed by the Nuremberg Laws.The boy accidentally drops his wind-up toy at the feet of a bevy ofBund Deutscher Madel (Hitler Youth)girls. The leading girl, staring hatefullyat the tearful eyes of the boy, steps on his toy.The film's superb production design by Ken Adam of "Barry Lyndon" famecaptures the decadent, Art Nouveau ambience of 1930's Germany,and the cold,inhuman aesthetic of Nazi design.As in Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" (1969), Helmut Berger again givesa powerful performance as an ambivalent, immoral and ambitious Nazi cadre. The Damned [DVD] [1969 ]

No problems at all with this second hand purchase. The movie is currently hard to obtain.As for 'Salon Kitty ' itself - imagine 'Cabaret' crossed with 'Caligula' and you'll be in the right ball park. It would benefit greatly from a re-edit that excises the appallingly exploitative depiction of disabled performers.

Absolutely crap.

Once you get past the nudity and Nazi exploitation stuff, this is an interesting commentary on the Democratic Socialist (read Democrat) movement in Germany heading into WWII. Substitute the brothel for say an island somewhere warm, throw in the corruption and quest for power and the political concept of the film runs nearly parallel with current events. The interview with the director could have expanded on some of this a little more but you'll get the point. Plus plenty of nudity, because let's face it, that is what you were expecting anyway.

Versione restaurata e integrale del film politico-satirico di Tinto Brass che ridicolizza il nazismo.Traccia audio italiana anche in DTS-HD 2.0Contenuti Extra:- Intervista a Tinto Brass di 24 minuti- Trailer cinematograficoDisco Region FreeHelmut Berger, che interpreta il protagonista, ha recitato anche in: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini di Vittorio De Sica, Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate di Duccio Tessari, Ludwig di Luchino Visconti, Mia moglie è una strega di Castellano e Pipolo e Il Padrino - Parte III di Francis Ford Coppola.

Eine Besonderheit für den Geschichtsliebhaber neuerer dt. Geschichte, wenn auch ein "wenig anrüchiges Thema!". Vermutl. schwierig, die DVD in Deutsch zu bekommen?

An interesting movie. I was a little disappointed, the film quality was no better than dvd, and the plot was a little monotonous. Still worth watching, but get the dvd, the blue ray is no better

love the titillating SS exploitation flixs ..this one is a must and based on a true story actually as there was a brothel used to spy on SS officers & not as hokey as Ilsa