The Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977)
"L'ultima orgia del III Reich" (original title)

Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron ... See full summary »

Director:

Cesare Canevari

Writers:

Cesare Canevari (screenplay), Antonio Lucarella (screenplay),

Stars:

Adriano Micantoni, Daniela Poggi, Maristella Greco

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Adriano Micantoni	...	Commandant Conrad von Starker (as Marc Loud)
Daniela Poggi	...	Lise Cohen (as Daniela Levy)
Maristella Greco	...	Alma
Fulvio Ricciardi
Antiniska Nemour
Caterina Barbero
Domenico Seren Gay	...	(as Domenico Serengai)
Vittorio Joderi
Pietro Bosco
Pietro Vial
Renato Paracchi
Maria Grazia Cisera
Tino Polenghi	...	(as Santino Polenghi)

Storyline

Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron fist by Commandant Starker and his minion Alma. Starker becomes frustrated when Lise demonstrates no fear, and devises cruel experiments to scare her, to no avail. Once she realizes her guilt is unfounded, Lise begins to play Starker's game, but even though she begins living a better life, she doesn't forget the atrocities she has seen and experienced.

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Plot Keywords:

sexual perversion | death by strangulation | film starts with quote | shit | lamp shade | 

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Taglines:

Banned in the U.K.!

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Genres:

Thriller | War

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Certificate:

X

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

31 January 1977 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Last Orgy of the Third Reich

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cine Lu.Ce.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 81 min (original)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film was listed as an official video nasty and subsequently banned by the BBFC. It has yet to receive a UK release.

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Connections

Referenced in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

User Reviews

love seen through a glass, darkly

I've read some reviews of this film and I think they are missing something. OK! This is a nazisploitation flick - there's a concentration camp for Jewish women (for coincidence, most of them young and pretty), there is a scene in which a woman is thrown to the dogs for feeding them; in another one young girls are standing side by side waiting to be raped by German soldiers; and there's also a sadomasochistic relationship between Commandant Starker and a woman officer and so on..... But beyond these attractions, "L'Ultima Orgia del III Reich" is about a love relationship between Commandant Starker and a Jewish girl, Lise. It is a love relationship born first from fear

• the omnipresent death surrounding and threatening everything had

succeeded in drowning hate in a lake of numbness - Lise had hardened herself into indifference and Starker's violence stirs something in her. A dark love affair ensues, and nonetheless it is in some ways a truer depiction of love than the one that is usually given by the average film, where everything is clean and white.

Commandant Starker had made everything he could to break Lise (she had even been tied upside down, her head near a floor crowded with mice). But he had noticed he couldn't make her lose her mind.

And then Lise she seduces Starker. They start a love relationship, fed by opportunism, hate, fear and luxury and driven by power and death. There's a moment in which Starker says to Lise: "I showed you death, now you can start to really live".

But this a a doomed relationship - born in a concentration camp, fed by fear and numbness, aroused by death and violence and corroded by hate and quiet despair. It is an interesting story. Try to leave your prejudices at the door and you may be surprised.