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

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

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Goofs

The positions of the new girls in the first scene in the new brothel, when Kitty looks them over and is displeased.

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Quotes

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

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Connections

Referenced in Ken Adam: Designing Bond (2000)

User Reviews

The movie actually has a lot of merit as a film, but its story is uneven…

"Salon Kitty" is an exploitation and a serious study of Nazi atrocities...

Kitty Kellermann runs a brothel that provides entertainment to the German elite… Unknown to her, it has been annoyed by a top SS officer to gain incriminating evidence against some of Germany's top general… One of the girls, Margherita, falls in love with a German officer who wants to defect to the Allies… The plot is discovered, and Margherita is used as an informer, but when she tells Madam Kitty about the goings-on in her house, she is outraged and plots revenge…

The film indulges in many of the perversions and sexual humiliations the Germans inflicted on the whores of Salon Kitty...

Tinto Brass directs the film with a heavy hand, focusing continually during the ending sequence to create a hypnotic effect… He doesn't shy away from the atrocities, and often takes intense pleasure in them... The characterizations are very firm and realistic, but the movie's harsh portrayal of much of the sexual activity has kept it out of the mainstream…