Salon Kitty (1976)

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information ... See full summary »

Director:

Tinto Brass

Writers:

Tinto Brass (screenplay), Antonio Colantuoni (story),

Stars:

Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

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Plot Keywords:

girl | recording device | blackmail | nazi | germany | 

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Taglines:

Playground for the wildest fantasies of the SS.

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

X

Details

Country:

Italy West Germany France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

21 January 1977 (USA)

Also Known As:

Madam Kitty

Filming Locations:

Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Coralta Cinematografica, Cinema Seven Film, Les Productions Fox Europa

Technical Specs

Runtime:

129 min 110 min (heavily cut) 133 min (director's cut) 125 min (cut) 106 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the English-language version of the director's cut, the restored footage (with the prison cells, the sex circus beforehand, and a few other graphic sexual scenes) is in Italian. This is because these scenes were not included in the original, censored English version and only the Italian soundtrack exists.

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Goofs

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.

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Quotes

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

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Connections

Featured in Designing 'Salon Kitty' (2003)

User Reviews

Art-house softcore Euro-porn

A visually impressive movie, very arty and with many subtle undertones. Packed full of pulchritudinous young females in various stages of undress and very risque in its day, the film is, however, very ponderous in places, particularly during the first hour.

Basic plot summary: In 1939 Berlin, the Nazi authorities take over the famous Salon Kitty brothel and pack it with new girls of good Aryan stock and impeccable National Socialist credentials. Their mission is to spy on their military officer clients and report back to their controllers about anyone who seems to be wavering from the Party line. All goes well until one of the girls, Marguerite, falls in love with a Luftwaffe pilot who has turned his back on Hitler and all he stands for.