Overview: Berlin, in the final years of the Third Reich. Salon Kitty is an elegant, high-class brothel where officers, diplomats and party officials come to unwind far from the pressures of the war. What none of them know is that the whole place has been quietly turned into a trap.

Wallenberg (Helmut Berger, The Damned, The Godfather Part III, an ambitious and ruthless SS officer, has had hidden microphones installed in every room and has replaced Madame Kitty’s girls with party-loyalist women he personally selected and trained to seduce, listen and report. His plan is coldly simple: gather every secret, every doubt and every disloyal word spoken in those beds, then use that mountain of compromising material to blackmail his way to the very top, even above Hitler himself.

Among the new recruits is Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy, Caligula), an idealistic young woman who genuinely believes she is serving the Reich by giving herself to its soldiers. Little by little she begins to notice the strange details around her, and she uncovers the truth behind the salon and the man pulling the strings. Her faith collapses into disgust, and disgust hardens into a need for revenge.

Working carefully alongside Madame Kitty (frequent Bergman collaborator, Ingrid Thulin, Wild Strawberries, The Silence), who has her own reasons to want Wallendorf destroyed, Margherita sets out on a dangerous game of double deception.

Set against the decadence and moral rot of a regime collapsing in on itself, director Tinto Brass (Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, Death Laid an Egg) blends eroticism, power and betrayal into a lurid, provocative portrait of corruption. As the walls close in and loyalties dissolve, Margherita and Kitty push toward a final reckoning where sex is a weapon, silence is survival, and the price of the truth may be everything they have left.

Blu-ray Verdict: In WW2 Germany, Gestapo officers spy on their own soldiers at a brothel to make sure they don’t turn against the Fuhrer. Thulin and Berger are reunited after playing mother and son in The Damned, cementing their places in the Decadence Hall of Shame. Thulin vamps through three songs, which is at least three too many, in my honest opinion.

As one would expect from Brass, there is ample display of flesh. Savoy is an idealistic young woman with naked ambitions (well, naked anyway). The film is ultimately trashy fun as long as it is focusing on the salacious activities of those naughty Nazis. However, Brass decides to throw in some messages about love and war, making the film drag somewhat, but at least it never derails it.

Call it an exploitation movie or whatever, but one thing is certain, Salon Kitty is not one of those boring movies that are mass produced these days in Hollywood’s clone factories. The cinematography is excellent, the sets are lavish, the acting is all very good, and the storyline is pretty top-notch.

The problem is that if I wanted to watch a serious war drama, I’d watch the Dirty Dozen or some such war flick. Being that Salon Kitty was from the same man that gave us the epic sleaze masterpiece Caligula, Kitty is all you need to know about what to expect here!

Anyway, the puritan will be repelled by the nudity and many scenes, whereas the openminded may find some revelations regarding mankind; all well embedded in the form of a most wondrously grotesque play!

Special Features:
Making Salon Kitty - unique English-language Tinto Brass interview
International theatrical trailer
USA trailer
New and improved English subtitles and additional SDH
Two-sided art card
Original Madam Kitty American release poster, reproduced to celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary
Collector’s reversible sleeve

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