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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Blistering performances.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

"Salon Kitty" is an exploitation and a serious study of Nazi atrocities...Kitty Kellermann runs a brothel that provides entertainment to the German elite… Unknown to her, it has been annoyed by a top SS officer to gain incriminating evidence against some of Germany's top general… One of the girls, Margherita, falls in love with a German officer who wants to defect to the Allies… The plot is discovered, and Margherita is used as an informer, but when she tells Madam Kitty about the goings-on in her house, she is outraged and plots revenge… The film indulges in many of the perversions and sexual humiliations the Germans inflicted on the whores of Salon Kitty...Tinto Brass directs the film with a heavy hand, focusing continually during the ending sequence to create a hypnotic effect… He doesn't shy away from the atrocities, and often takes intense pleasure in them... The characterizations are very firm and realistic, but the movie's harsh portrayal of much of the sexual activity has kept it out of the mainstream

With the opening credits, I knew that this was going to be something different. A "two faced" man/woman dances and sings in a cabaret entertaining the crowd in fine fashion. We then have naked, exercising Nazis showing off their Arian "superiorities" in unfortunately, flaccid form. So begins our film. This film finds a Grande Dame in charge of a Cabaret at the beginning of WWII. Miss Kitty is forced to turn her club into a Nazi controlled brothel where women are trained to handle most any type of customer. Unbeknownst to her, The Nazis have planted hidden microphones in the rooms to listen in to every secret/conspiracy that their German Officers might be hiding. The kicker comes in when she learns of this and decides to turn the tables on our Nazi "baddies" recording everything.This a very well made film. The sets are first class, the actors are incredibly well dressed and the makeup is applied both on and off camera with splendid effect. Yes, the acting's a bit over the top, but that's always the "norm" with Italian productions. That's just something that you'll never get away from in the "boot country" (and take it from someone who lived there for 7 years). One could easily compare Fosse's "Cabaret"(1972) and "Salon Kitty", due to their period and musical numbers alone, but Brass employed some much needed nudity for his particular feature (and we certainly thank him for it).All in all, some excellent Nazisploitation fun with good production values. We have a generous quantity of naked women simultaneously "Sieg Heiling", pigs being slaughtered, a naked midget hunchback about to perform coitus (on one of our trainees) and a legless chap about to get lucky with yet another trainee. Damn fun stuff, indeed. Single "X" mind you, but fun all the same.I highly recommend this one, but be sure to have some time as the uncut version goes on for some 2 hours and 15 minutes, credits included.Charlie.

Kitty Kellermann (Ingrid Thulin) runs a bordello for the Nazis in WW2 where numerous atrocities are committed. An army official has bugged the place hoping to usurp power from Hitler. It has amputee sex, midget sex, and hunchback coupling. Bothed home made abortions and it's not a straight out exploitation film, nope not when Tinto "over-rated hack" Brass is concerned. Nope this is an art-house flick through and through. It's also excruciatingly long, impossably tedious and mundane, hopelessly dreary, and given to subject matter, deathly dull. Of course a few years later, Tinto would prove that he could fail on a much bigger global scale with "Caligola" My Grade: D- DVD Extras: Disc 1) Tinto Brass Bio; International and US theatrical Trailers Disc 2) Interviews with Tinto Brass,and Production Designer Ken Adam; 3 radio spots; Poster & stills gallery; Production & Costume designs DVD-Rom: Complete book "the Story of Madame Kitty"

I'm not really sure what I was hoping for when I rented this movie, but I know I certainly wasn't hoping for what I got here. To be sure, the art direction is extremely good. And sure, there is gobs of nudity and sex almost bordering on hard-core. But despite all this, the movie is BORING, especially at the almost ungodly length of over 2 hours with the recently issued director's cut! While there is an interesting idea with the plot premise, it goes all over the place. Characters come then go offscreen for long periods of time so they aren't really developed, and the little plot there is would probably (at best) barely cover an hour if all the redundant footage was cut out. All the same, pretty amazing Germany would get involved in a coproduction of this nature, and I guess it might be considered an interesting footnote in that it served as a warm-up for Brass' equally bizarre later film CALIGULA.