Salon Kitty (film)

Salon Kitty
Salon Kitty
	Poster
Directed by	Tinto Brass
Screenplay by	Ennio De Concini; Tinto Brass;
Based on	Salon Kitty ; by Peter Norden
Starring	Helmut Berger; Ingrid Thulin; Teresa Ann Savoy;
Cinematography	Silvano Ippoliti
Edited by	Tinto Brass
Music by	Fiorenzo Carpi
Production; companies	Coralta Produzioni Internazionali Cinematografica S.r.l.; Cinema Seven Film GmbH & Co. 1 KG; Les Fox Productions Europa;
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 2, 1976 (Italy);
Running time	130 minutes
Countries	Italy; West Germany; France;
Languages	Italian, English, German

Salon Kitty is a 1976 erotic-war-drama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was co-produced by Italy, France and West Germany. It is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Norden,^[2] covering the real life events of the Salon Kitty operation, under which the Sicherheitsdienst took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped, and replaced all the prostitutes with trained spies, in order to gather information on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries.

It is considered among the progenitors of Nazisploitation genre.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In the U.S., the film was edited to lighten the political overtones for an easier marketing as a sexploitation film and released under the title Madam Kitty with an X rating. Blue Underground Video, for the uncut version, has surrendered the X rating for an unrated DVD and Blu-ray release.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Salon Kitty". Filmportal.de. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
^ Zavattini, Cesare. L'ultimo schérmo: cinema di guerra, cinema di pace. EDIZIONI DEDALO, 1984.
^ Stéphane François. Le nazisme revisité. Berg International, 2008.
^ Cult Cinema. Cult Cinema. John Wiley and Sons, 2011.
^ Dassanowsky, Robert. The Third Reich as Bordello and Pig Sty: Between Critical Neodecadence and Hyperbole of Degeneration in Tinto Brass' Salon Kitty. Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture. Continuum, 2011. pgs. 115-134. ISBN 978-1441183590

[filmportal-1] "Salon Kitty". Filmportal.de. Retrieved January 18, 2016.

[2] Zavattini, Cesare. L'ultimo schérmo: cinema di guerra, cinema di pace. EDIZIONI DEDALO, 1984.

[3] Stéphane François. Le nazisme revisité. Berg International, 2008.

[4] Cult Cinema. Cult Cinema. John Wiley and Sons, 2011.

[5] Dassanowsky, Robert. The Third Reich as Bordello and Pig Sty: Between Critical Neodecadence and Hyperbole of Degeneration in Tinto Brass' Salon Kitty. Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture. Continuum, 2011. pgs. 115-134. ISBN 978-1441183590

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