Le lunghe notti della Gestapo (1977)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Fabio De Agostini

Writers:

Fabio De Agostini (writer)
Oscar Righini (writer)

Release Date:

26 December 1977 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Recording Device | Death | Lesbianism | Conversation | Sex Orgy

Cast

Ezio Miani	...	Werner von Uhland
Fred Williams	...	Helmut von Danzig
Francesca Righini	...	Frau von Uhland
Rosita Torosh	...	Ursula Tanner
Isabelle Marchall	...	Isabelle
Mike Morris	...	General von Guderwal
Luca Sportelli	...	Arthur Bering
Luciano Rossi	...	Erich Schwab
Alessandra Palladino	...	Greta
Almina De Sanzio	...	Martha
Niki Penati	...	Esther
Giorgio Cerioni	...	Walter Wagner
Carla Schiavanovic	...	Linda
Daniele Dublino	...	Hauptsturmführer Ritter
Corrado Gaipa	...	Udo Kassbaum

Also Known As:

The Red Nights of the Gestapo

Runtime:

Australia:103 min (uncut version) | Australia:80 min (edited version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | Australia:(Banned) (original rating) | Australia:R (cut) | Australia:X (re-rating) (1984) | Denmark:16 | Iceland:(Banned) | Sweden:15

Company:

Eurogroup Film Distributors of Italy

I don't want a history lesson; I want sleaze.

If, like me, you prefer your Nazisploitation loaded with gore, perversion and nudity, with a generous side order of camp, then you would probably be best advised to goose-step straight past Red Nights of the Gestapo.

Ezio Miani plays Werner von Uhland, an SS Colonel attempting to infiltrate a select group of the bourgeoisie who are known for their dislike of Der Führer. Inviting the seven men to a secret meeting, Werner pairs each guest with a women chosen for her ability to cater for that person's specific perversion (amazingly, each guest seems to have his own unique sexual weakness).

By recording each couple with hidden microphones, Werner hopes to uncover the group's plans to overthrow Hitler's regime, whilst also gathering material for blackmail.

With a script that delves rather too deeply into the political history of the Nazis circa 1941, Fabio De Agostini's movie proves to be more concerned with factual accuracy than in delivering sleaze. Thus, we get frequent extremely dull conversations about the defection of Hess, the progress of the Wehrmacht, and anti-Nazi sentiments amongst the German intelligentsia, and not nearly enough time devoted to the lesbianism, sado-masochism, violence and extreme decadent behaviour that is normally associated with the genre (although a hilarious nymphomaniac and a female Hitler impersonator do try their best to liven up proceedings).

And with the entire movie set in a castle, rather than a concentration camp (like so many other films of its ilk), we don't even get any unnecessarily painful experimentation performed on prisoners. Shame!