Nazi Love Camp 27 (1977)
"La svastica nel ventre" (original title)

A Jewish girl and an Aryan, both German, are in love in pre-war times. WW2 breaks up, he is sent to fight for the Nazi flag and she is arrested and sent to serve as a prostitute in camp 27 ... See full summary »

Director:

Mario Caiano

Writers:

Gianfranco Clerici (story), Sandro Amati (story),

Stars:

Sirpa Lane, Giancarlo Sisti, Roberto Posse

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sirpa Lane	...	Hannah Meyer
Giancarlo Sisti	...	Captain Kurt von Stein
Roberto Posse	...	Captain Klaus Berger
Gianfilippo Carcano	...	Hanna's Father
Piero Lulli	...	General at the Nazi Brothel
Marzia Ubaldi	...	Frau Gruber
Renata Moar	...	Klaus's Sister
Isabella Russo
Christiana Borghi	...	Woman at the love camp (as Cristiana Borghi)
Mike Morris	...	Herr Gruppenführer
Sarah Crespi	...	First rape victim
Margherita Horowitz	...	Hanna's Mother
Gaetano Russo
Giovanni Di Benedetto	...	(as Gianni De Benedetto)
Gudrun Gundelach	...	Dr. Günther

Storyline

A Jewish girl and an Aryan, both German, are in love in pre-war times. WW2 breaks up, he is sent to fight for the Nazi flag and she is arrested and sent to serve as a prostitute in camp 27 where disobedience is punishable only by death! She decides to give her body in order to survive hoping that one day she may tell the world what she have seen.

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Plot Keywords:

death | nazi | female nudity | sex | shooting | 

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Taglines:

What is the worst act a woman can be forced to commit... again and again and again...

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller | War

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

September 1977 (USA)

Also Known As:

Nazi Love Camp 27

Filming Locations:

Dobbiaco, Bolzano, Trentino - Alto Adige, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmes

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min 85 min (Québec)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Twisted Sex Vol. 6

User Reviews

Rather drama than exploitation

Despite its exploiting English title "Nazi Love Camp 27" and despite the fact that this film belongs to the so-called "Nazi Camp films" (or, even worse, "Nazi porn films", although these films are all not pornographic) that were made in Italy following the success of both "Ilsa - She-Wolf of the SS" by Don Edmonds and Pier Paolo Pasolini's shocking masterpiece "Salo o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma", it is rather an anti-war drama than an exploitation movie.

Unlike the other films of this notorious genre - like e.g. Bruno Mattei's "KZ9 - Lager di Sterminio" or the outrageous "Le Ultime Orgie del Terzo Reich", it focuses on a very depressing story about a young Jewish woman that gets captured by the Gestapo and deported in a concentration camp, only to be taken home by a influential Nazi general with masochist tendencies (of course he only shows these tendencies towards the Jewish woman when they're alone). He makes her the boss of a brothel for Nazi officers, and at first, she accepts the job because it's her only way to stay alive. Needless to say that the story doesn't offer a happy end.

Although there are some scenes of Nazi war atrocities during the scenes in the concentration camp, but unlike similar scenes in other such films, they are never exploiting, but just show up the unbelievable crimes Nazi Germany committed during World War II. The end of the film, which is a very realistic approach to this difficult topic, is pure tragedy and kicks the viewer unpleasantly in the stomach, because director Caiano manages to make one feel and hope with the tragic Jewish woman.

"The swastika in the stomach", how the title translates literally, is an intriguing and depressing film, but also a very powerful one that is much too rare. In my opinion, it should have a status just alongside Pasolini's far more grotesque "Salo", because it's one of the most impressing anti-war dramas that won't let you forget the terrible things that had happened in Europe during World War II.