Le lunghe notti della Gestapo (1977)

Director:

Fabio De Agostini

Writers:

Fabio De Agostini
Oscar Righini
(more)

Release Date:

31 March 1977 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

They Created the Most Depraved Society the World Has Ever Known!

Plot:

An illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Conspiracy | Nazi Officer | Hidden Microphone | Sexual Perversion

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
Tino Polenghi	...	Heinrich Himmler
Katya Riccioli	...	Hilde / Eva
Nando Marineo	...	Felix Toten
Franco Patano	...	Friedrich Schatz
Paola Maiolini	...	Bertha
Giusy Riccioli
Pier Luigi Murri
Daniela Vigilante
Giorgio Modena
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Inga Alexandrova	...	Fräulein Tahring (uncredited)
Tom Felleghy	...	Professor Strauss (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Fabio De Agostini

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Fabio De Agostini
Oscar Righini
Bertha Uhland		novel "The Red Nights of the Gestapo"

Produced by
Oscar Righini	....	producer

Original Music by
Francesco Valgrande

Cinematography by
Antonio Maccoppi

Film Editing by
Giancarlo Venarucci

Art Direction by
Amedeo Mellone

Costume Design by
Andrea Zani

Makeup Department
Gerardo Raffaeli	....	hair stylist
Mario Scutti	....	makeup artist
Alfredo Tiberi	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Cesare Seratti	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marco Righini	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Angelo Spadoni	....	boom
Pietro Spadoni	....	sound engineer

Special Effects by
Libero Daffin	....	special effects
Cataldo Galliano	....	special effects
Basilio Patrizi	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Aldo Bergamini	....	assistant camera
Renato Doria	....	camera operator
Angelo Lannutti	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Anna Onori	....	wardrobe

Other crew
Ulderico Arditi	....	production secretary
Augusto Caddeo	....	production secretary
Annamaria Liguori	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Eurogroup Film Distributors of Italy

Distributors

• Eurogroup Film Distributors of Italy (1977) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Exploitation Digital (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Mac Vídeo (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Australia:103 min (uncut version) | Australia:80 min (edited version) | USA:108 min (DVD version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White (archive footage) | 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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Despido improcedente (1980)

Soundtrack:

Lullaby for Monsters

No More Sleepless Nights with the Gestapo-Boys!

Although "Red Nights of the Gestapo" is extremely boring, poorly made and totally unmemorable, I somewhat feel obliged to reward it with a *slightly* higher rating than the majority of Nazisploitation flicks I've seen before. Why? Because these stupid films usually always revolve on sleaze and repulsive experiments in concentration camps, filled with perverted guards and deranged doctors, but "Red Nights…" is at least a little more ambitious. The plot revolves on a Nazi (a typical one with blond hair and blue eyes) who has to come up with a plan to prevent an already plotted murder conspiracy against Hitler himself. To accomplish his mission, Werner does a whole lot of things that don't make any sense – unless I wasn't paying enough attention – like kidnapping the daughter of a Swedish industrialist, recruiting nymphomaniac women for the army or forcing a fellow officer to drink the breast milk of a female prisoner. What the hell? The absolute funniest sequence shows a doctor giving a scalpel to a female prisoner and commanding her to hurt herself. The scalpel is clearly just a red pen and the blood she licks is simply ink! Practically ALL Nazi-exploitation movies are total duds and not worth tracking down (two exceptions being "Salon Kitty" and "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"). They're the most boring films imaginable and the sexual footage depicted here is of the most UN-erotic kind. For example: in "Red Nights…", there's a scene were a poor girl gets raped with a gun and some sick bastard even bites off one of her nipples! If that idea arouses anyone, they're in urgent need of professional psychological help.