Salon Kitty (1976)

Salon Kitty: Directed by Tinto Brass. With Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner. Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to “relax”. Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.

“Iu0026#39;m not really sure what I was hoping for when I rented this movie, but I know I certainly wasnu0026#39;t hoping for what I got here. To be sure, the art direction is extremely good. And sure, there is gobs of nudity and sex almost bordering on hard-core. But despite all this, the movie is BORING, especially at the almost ungodly length of over 2 hours with the recently issued directoru0026#39;s cut! While there is an interesting idea with the plot premise, it goes all over the place. Characters come then go offscreen for long periods of time so they arenu0026#39;t really developed, and the little plot there is would probably (at best) barely cover an hour if all the redundant footage was cut out. All the same, pretty amazing Germany would get involved in a coproduction of this nature, and I guess it might be considered an interesting footnote in that it served as a warm-up for Brassu0026#39; equally bizarre later film CALIGULA.”