KZ9 - Lager di Sterminio (1977)

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by ... See full summary »

Director:

Bruno Mattei

Writers:

Giacinto Bonacquisti, Aureliano Luppi,

Stars:

Ivano Staccioli, Ria De Simone, Nello Riviè

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ivano Staccioli	...	Wieker, the Camp Commander
Ria De Simone	...	Marta, the Chief Kapo
Nello Riviè
Gabriele Carrara	...	Oberleutnant Otto Ohlendorff
Giovanni Attanasio	...	Kurt
Sonia Viviani	...	Cristina
Marina Daunia	...	Jewish prisoner (as Marina D'Aunia)
Monica Nickel
Titti Benvenuto
Eva Hutzar
Gota Gobert	...	Kapo (as Gotha Kopert)
Miriam Gravina
Manuela Mura
Pino Pupella
Dino Chiappini

Storyline

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to "cure" homosexual men by having nude women dance for them. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.

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Plot Keywords:

experiment | nazi | homosexual | death | nazi soldier | 

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

18 March 1977 (Italy)

Also Known As:

S.S. Extermination Love Camp

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Three Stars 76

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob Movie (2012)

User Reviews

Mein (boring) Kampf

Never thought that I, as a native Dutch speaker, would encounter irremovable Dutch subtitles on a Region 1 movie that came imported from the USA! This movie is available in the newly released "Grindhouse Experience" box-set, but since it never officially came out on DVD, the version is clearly ripped from an ancient VHS copy. And that copy must have originally come from either The Netherlands or Belgium, which makes sense, as the lowest shelves of video stores around here are literally packed with this sort of rancid exploitation trash! I've seen loads of "Naziploitation" efforts and they're all pretty terrible, but in the hands of the infamous Bruno Mattei (appropriately nicknamed the Ed Wood of Italian cinema) you get something that is even worse than terrible, namely something downright unendurable! "Naziploitation" was the most pointless trend of 70's smut-cinema and to this day I still fail to comprehend why it was so damn popular in those days. All these movies practically have the same senseless plot, and so does "Women's Camp 119". Beautiful and defenseless young girls are shipped off to vile concentration camps where they get abused & humiliated by sleazy wardens and where they serve as reluctant guinea pigs for idiotic scientists of the Third Reich. In this piece of garbage, for example, the girls are forced to thaw frozen Nazi officers using simply their body heat and "cure" men from their wicked disease called homosexuality. One poor woman even has her uterus removed because the Nazi's decided she should share her fertility with other, less fertile women. Of course there's a lot of full-frontal nudity and sex on display, but it's never once arousing or even agreeable to watch. This clearly was an extremely low-budgeted production and I don't even think Bruno Mattei's cinematographers could afford to buy a couple of light bulbs. Too often you find yourself staring at an almost entirely black screen and even the exterior sequences suffer from bad lighting. There are numerous (and redundant) scenes in which people glorify the ideals of Hitler and his book "Mein Kampf", and I suppose this was done simply to increase the shock-value. The acting performances are atrocious, with the exception of Lorraine De Selle who's adequate as the doctor's assistant. In the 1980's, De Selle would also star in Bruno Mattei's absolute best movie called "Woman's Prison Massacre"; this time as a warden.