Salon Kitty (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Salon Kitty |
| Original title | Salon Kitty |
| Country of production |
Italy , Germany , France |
| original language |
German , English , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tinto Brass |
| script | Tinto Brass, Ennio De Concini , Maria Pia Fusco |
| production |
Ermanno Donati , Giulio Sbarigia |
| music | Fiorenzo Carpi |
| camera | Silvano Ippoliti |
| cut | Tinto Brass |
| occupation | |
| |
Salon Kitty is an Italian-German-French erotic film by Tinto Brass with Helmut Berger , Ingrid Thulin and Teresa Ann Savoy in the leading roles. It was shot in 1975 in Berlin during the Nazi era . The film is based on real events and on the novel of the same name (1974) by Peter Norden . The film is considered to be an early representative of Naziploitation .
action
Berlin 1939. On the eve of the Second World War , the high-ranking SS officer Helmut Wallenberg was given the task of converting the “Salon Kitty” brothel, run by the experienced Kitty Kellermann, so that the high-ranking foreign diplomats who frequented there were also important Nazi military representatives , Politics and business can be wiretapped and spied on. In order to be sure of the followers of the prostitutes, the entire previous workforce will be replaced by women who are loyal to the line, all of them BDM girls. These are intended to search customers for important secret information or to take advantage of favorable moments in order to be able to photograph or read through any documents they may have with them.
In addition, Wallenberg has the respective rooms equipped with monitoring systems to make sure that the women do their work in accordance with the Nazi regime. In the secret headquarters of Salon Kitty, in the basement of the establishment, there are appropriately trained staff who collect the information and, if necessary, evaluate it immediately. One day things threaten to slip away from the gay Wallenberg when the young prostitute and informant Margherita protests against the system. Her work and the surveillance activities by the SS led to the execution of her lover, the Luftwaffe officer Hans Reiter, who had expressed himself too carelessly about his rejection of the Nazi regime. Margherita plans to take revenge for this loss together with Kitty on Wallenberg ...
Production notes
Salon Kitty was founded in Italy and Germany in 1975, was shot in English to improve sales opportunities and premiered in Italy on March 2, 1976. The German and Austrian premiere took place on March 26, 1976.
The film buildings were created by Ken Adam , the German buildings were designed by Jan Schlubach . The German actor Werner Pochath assisted Brass with the German scenes .
Berger's Helmut Wallenberg is based on the high-ranking SS officer Walter Schellenberg , Ingrid Thulin's puff mother Kitty Kellermann was actually called Katharina “Kitty” Schmidt (1882–1954).
Historical background
The Salon Kitty really existed. As shown in the film, it was a brothel in Berlin-Charlottenburger Giesebrechtstrasse 11, on the third floor of the building from 1939 to 1942, the security service of the Reichsführer SS and later the Reich Security Main Office, the mostly prominent customers for the purpose of obtaining information spied on.
Reviews
Spiegel Online found the film to be a bombastic sado-maso spectacle.
On filmtipps.at one could read: “SALON KITTY by Tinto Brass, like Liliana Cavani's THE NIGHT PORTER , is one of the films made in the 1970s that quickly caused scandals due to their amalgamation of sex and Nazi dictatorship, even though they were miles away were removed from the purely sensational works of Nazi propaganda. "
The film's large lexicon of people called the film an "uncomfortable mixture of Nazi gusto and Sado-Maso clichés."
"A speculative film with no time-critical value, which only builds on the attraction of sex and Nazi nostalgia."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Salon Kitty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 48 067 V).
- ^ Seduce for the "Führer" on Spiegel-Online, 2008
- ^ Salon Kitty on filmtipps.at
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film, Volume 1, entry Tinto Brass. Berlin 2001
- ^ Salon Kitty. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 15, 2018 .
Web links
- Salon Kitty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Salon Kitty at filmportal.de
- Salon Kitty on spiegel.de