Salon Kitty (1976)

Director:

Tinto Brass

Writers:

Tinto Brass (screenplay)
Antonio Colantuoni (story)

Release Date:

21 January 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Playground for the wildest fantasies of the SS.

Plot:

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Brothel | Recording Device | Nudity | Dominatrix

Cast

Helmut Berger	...	Helmut Wallenberg
Ingrid Thulin	...	Kitty Kellermann
Teresa Ann Savoy	...	Margherita
John Steiner	...	Biondo
Sara Sperati	...	Helga, the dominatrix
Maria Michi	...	Hilde
Rosemarie Lindt	...	Susan
Paola Senatore	...	Marika
John Ireland	...	Cliff
Tina Aumont	...	Herta Wallenberg
Alexandra Bogojevic	...	Gloria
Dan van Husen	...	Rauss
Ullrich Haupt
Stefano Satta Flores	...	Dino
Bekim Fehmiu	...	Hans Reiter

Also Known As:

Salon Kitty (France) (West Germany)
Doppelspiel (West Germany) (video box title)
Madam Kitty (USA)
Madame Kitty (France)

Runtime:

129 min | USA:110 min (heavily cut) | 133 min (director's cut) | Argentina:125 min (cut) | West Germany:106 min (cut)

Country:

Italy | West Germany | France

Language:

Italian | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:Not Rated (video) | Italy:VM18 | Spain:18 | West Germany:18 (nf) (cut) | Finland:(Banned) (1976) | Finland:K-18 (1984) (cut) | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | New Zealand:R18 | Sweden:15 | USA:Not Rated (re-rating) | USA:X (original rating) | UK:18 | Norway:(Banned) (1977-2003) (cinema release)

Filming Locations:

Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Coralta Cinematografica

Trivia:

Maria Michi's last film before retirement.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the general orders the prostitute to put on his boots, she slips them on after taking off only one of her shoes. The shoe she is unfastening also changes from one foot to the other between shots.

Quotes:

Margherita's Mother: The most important thing is to be on the winning side!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ken Adam: Designing Bond (2000) (V)

A classic slice of Nazi sexploitation!

'Salon Kitty' was Tinto Brass' movie immediately prior to his infamous attempt at a big budget porn crossover 'Caligula'. While it isn't as notorious as that much talked about film, it is no slouch in the outrageousness department itself! Camp cult legend Helmet Berger (Visconti's 'The Damned', Franco's 'Faceless') plays Wallenberg, a ruthlessly ambitious Nazi who sets up Salon Kitty, a high class brothel to entertain his fellow officers. Unbeknown to Madame Kitty (Ingrid Thulin, who played Berger's mother in 'The Damned') Wallenberg has the place bugged and uses the information for blackmail purposes. The beautiful Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy, who like many of the cast went on to appear in 'Caligula') one of the patriotic party members Wallenberg recruited to work in the brothel eventually discovers this and plots, with Kitty's help, to bring down the dangerous megalomaniac before he destroys them all. This ludicrously over the top sexploitation classic features nudity galore, 'Cabaret' style musical numbers, and many flamboyant sequences. You're either into this kind of movie or you're not, and if you are it is one of the most entertaining of its kind. Also stars b-grade buff faves John Steiner ('Tenebre') and John Ireland ('Satan's Cheerleaders').