Salon Kitty (1976)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Tinto Brass

Writers:

Tinto Brass (screenplay)
Antonio Colantuoni (story)

Release Date:

21 January 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Depraved. Decadent. Damned.

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:

Doppelspiel (West Germany)
Madam Kitty (USA)
Madame Kitty (France)
Salon Kitty (France)

Runtime:

Germany:110 min (heavily cut) (unrated version) | USA:110 min (heavily cut) | 133 min (director's cut) | Argentina:125 min (cut)

Country:

Italy | West Germany | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:Not Rated (heavily cut) | Italy:VM18 | Spain:18 | 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:

Richard Crenna was originally cast as Cliff but left during the filming and was replaced by John Ireland.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The dead prostitute is also an extremely obvious mannequin.

Quotes:

Helmut Wallenberg: What frightens you, what you see or what you don't?

Movie Connections:

Features Triumph des Willens (1935)

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').