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Time Out 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 Ruth Batchelor Los Angeles Free Press It's an exagerated sexploitation soaper, made of the stuff which is dumped in kitty litter. Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Salon Kitty is supposedly satirical and clumsily melodramatic. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 30, 2019 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com All hail Tinto Brass doing Nazi Germany at its most debauched. Rated: 4/5 Oct 5, 2006 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 27, 2005 Full Review Sam Jordison Film4 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 Read all reviews

william d The plot lacks coherence, but you probably wouldn't watch a movie like this for the story anyway. Salon Kitty commits a more unforgivable sin: it's kind of boring. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review william k Under the pretense of saying something about the Nazi regime this film is mainly a high-profile exploitation flick dwelling more on its sex scenes than on any discernible message. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Centered around Ken Adam's flamboyant production design, Salon Kitty works more as an exercise in extravagance and style than a coherent film. While flesh-obsessed director Tinto Brass does sprinkle some chillingly effective images throughout his onslaught of garish eroticism, his unrelenting fetishization of Nazi iconography eventually becomes more humorous than menacing. Part Wertmüller, part Visconti, and part Russell, Brass may be forever linked to the overwrought epic Caligula, but his prodigious talents at least place him in the conversation with these other great transgressive filmmakers. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Nazi criticism ....no respect for women....utterly in a word....disgusting Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Nazi Germany, late-1930s. Germany is gearing up for war and one of their projects is to set up a brothel, where military officers and politicians can relax. SS Untergruppenfuhrer Helmut Wallenberg is tasked with the role of recruiting the girls - they must all be ardent National Socialists - and setting everything up. He views the brothel as a means to spy on senior officers and politicians, especially in order to weed out any traitors, and bugs the rooms. This has tragic consequences for one of the girls. Better than I expected. I was expecting a no-discernible-plot, heaps-of-gratuitous-nudity exploitation-type movie and this was better than that. There is a fair degree of nudity but it is fairly tame. Not very exploitative at all, especially compared to some movies in that genre. Plot is decent - it is coherent and not too holey. Just that it has a plot was a good start! Some engagement with the characters too. However, there are still many reminders that this is a B-movie. Continuity leaves a lot to be desired: eg a man's scar shifts from one side of his back to the other in one scene! Props are pretty basic: eg this movie contains the worst, most assymetrical, swastika flag yet seen. Performances are largely a bit hammy, but not too bad. The SS 2nd in command is ridiculously badly played though - the actor shouts every line at the top of his lungs! Very over-the-top. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Popularly aligned with the nazisploitation genre, perhaps unfairly, this is the film that firmly cements Tinto Brass as the European Russ Meyer, a man who knows what to do with a camera but is assessed on what he chooses to focus it on. A decent enough "other side" wartime drama told with a deft hand. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Prostitutes in a World War II brothel spy on the customers for a Nazi commandant (Helmut Berger).

Director

Tinto Brass

Producer

Giulio Sbarigia, Ermanno Donati

Screenwriter

Ennio De Concini

Genre

Drama

Original Language

Italian

Release Date (Streaming)

Aug 10, 2016

Runtime

1h 40m