Genre: Drama, Art House & International, Cult Movies
Directed By: Tinto Brass
In Theaters: Dec 31, 1976 Wide
On DVD: Sep 12, 2006
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.
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.
Kitty điều hành một nhà chứa ở nước Đức trong thời kỳ đảng Nazi cầm quyền (1933-1945) - đó là nơi các binh sĩ đến để "thư giãn". Các thiết bị ghi âm đã được gắn vào mỗi phòng bởi một viên chức quân đội ham quyền lực, người có kế hoạch dùng các tin tức đó để tống tiền Hitler và giành quyền lực cho mình.
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| Directed by | Tinto Brass |
| Produced by | Ermanno Donati Giulio Sbarigia |
| Written by | Tinto Brass Ennio De Concini Maria Pia Fusco Antonio Colantuoni |
| Starring | Helmut Berger Ingrid Thulin |
| Music by | Fiorenzo Carpi |
| Cinematography | Silvano Ippoliti |
| Edited by | Tinto Brass |
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| Country | Italy West Germany France |
| Language | Italian |
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.
In the U.S., the film was edited to lighten the political overtones for an easier marketing as a sexploitation film and released under the title Madam Kitty with an "X" rating. Blue Underground Video, for the uncut version, has surrendered the "X" rating for an unrated DVD and Blu-ray release.
Helmut Berger: Helmut Wallenberg
Ingrid Thulin: Kitty Kellermann
Teresa Ann Savoy: Margherita
John Steiner: Biondo
Bekim Fehmiu: Hans Reiter
Stefano Satta Flores: Dino
Sara Sperati: Helga, the dominatrix
Maria Michi: Ilde
Rosemarie Lindt: Susan
John Ireland: Cliff
Paola Senatore: Marika
Tina Aumont: Herta Wallenberg
Dan van Husen: Rauss
Luciano Rossi: Dr. Schwab
Giancarlo Badessi: German Officer with Projector
Malisa Longo: New Kitty Girl
Aldo Valletti: Dart Throwing Client
Salvatore Baccaro: Neanderthal Prison Inmate (uncredited)
Production
Salon Kitty was filmed mostly at Dear Studios in Rome, with some additional location filming in Germany. Production designer Ken Adam had recently suffered a nervous breakdown while working on Barry Lyndon, and he described his participation in this film as a creatively regenerative one. He has stated that the production was an enjoyable one, and that he feels Salon Kitty is "underrated." Adam based his design of Wallenberg's apartment on his own memories of his family's apartment in World War II-era Berlin. Wallenberg's enormous office, though a set, allegedly features a real marble floor, as it was cheaper to use real marble than create a mock-up version.
Costumes and uniforms for the film were designed by Ugo Pericoli and Jost Jacob, and were constructed by Tirelli Costumi of Rome. Adam credited Jacob with the design of the 'kinky' uniforms that Wallenberg wears throughout the film.
MOVIE INFO
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. 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. 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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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