Salon Kitty (Edited Version)

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Tinto Brass scored his first major international success with this shocking but stylish tale of decadence in the Third Reich, inspired by a true story. Madame Kitty (Ingrid Thulin) is the proprietor of one of Berlin's most luxurious brothels, where many members of the Nazi high command are her regular customers. Kitty is approached by Helmut Wallenberg (Helmut Berger), an S.S. official who orders her to shut down her business and act as his partner as he founds a new bordello, which will exclusively cater to the elite of the Nazi Party and the German military. Unknown to Kitty, Wallenberg's brothel has been staffed entirely by women recruited by the S.S. for their loyalty to the Reich, and each room has been equipped with secret recording devices, which will allow Wallenberg and his staff to not only gather blackmail material against troublesome officers, but to discover who might be expressing disloyal thoughts about Hitler's regime when their guard is down. Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy), a pretty young prostitute working for Kitty, is especially devoted to both her job and her country, but when she falls in love with Biondo (John Steiner), a German officer and frequent customer who has grown disillusioned with both the war and National Socialism, she discovers the true purpose of "Salon Kitty," and sets out to destroy the operation, with Kitty's help. Both a scandal and a success in Europe, Salon Kitty initially played the exploitation circuit in the United States in an edited version titled Madame Kitty, though the shorter version still earned an X rating.

Rating:

R
Genre:

Art House & International, Cult Movies, Drama
Directed By:

Tinto Brass
Written By:

Tinto Brass, Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco
In Theaters:

Dec 31, 1976 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Sep 12, 2006
Runtime:

110 minutes

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Cast

Helmut Berger
as Wallenberg

Ingrid Thulin
as Kitty

Teresa Ann Savoy
as Margherita

Bekim Fehmiu
as Hans

John Steiner
as Biondo

Stefano Satta Flores
as Dino

Dan van Husen
as Rauss

John Ireland
as Clift

Rosemarie Lindt
as Susan

Paola Senatore
as Marika

Sara Sperati
as Helga

Tina Aumont
as Herta Wallenberg

Maria Michi

Ullrich Haupt Jr.

Luciano Rossi

Gianfranco Bullo

Gigi Ballista

Margherita Horowitz

Clara Colosimo

Malisa Longo

Alena Penz

Bruno Nicolai

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Critic Reviews for Salon Kitty (Edited Version)

All Critics (6) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (4)

Masquerading as an essay on decadence and Fascism, this predictably speculative slice of Nazi sex is aimed squarely at the box-office.

Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…

Time Out
Top Critic
Salon Kitty is supposedly satirical and clumsily melodramatic. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 30, 2019 | Full Review…

Jesús Fernández Santos
El Pais (Spain)
All hail Tinto Brass doing Nazi Germany at its most debauched.

Oct 5, 2006 | Rating: 4/5

Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
Proof that there's far more to Tinto Brass than his ability to persuade pretty girls to show their bottoms.

May 24, 2003 | Full Review…

Sam Jordison
Film4
[A] failure, although with some very interesting moments.

Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

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Audience Reviews for Salon Kitty (Edited Version)

Mar 27, 2009

"Put a little versa into your vice..." A perverse cabaret that's interesting because it's strange.

Randy T Super Reviewer
Oct 29, 2008

Hooray for the Germans trust their malevolent deeds to Third Reich whores and of their disposals.Soft-core porn nonetheless,thus...i never really overvalued it like the pure erotic movie.

Dimitris S Super Reviewer
Feb 26, 2006

Camp and disturbing.

Krystle C Super Reviewer