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Salon Kitty (1976)

Salon Kitty poster
Directed by
Tinto Brass
Genre
drama film, sexploitation film
Country
West Germany, Germany, France, Italy
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
NC-17
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 146 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, the Nazis take over a high-class Berlin brothel and replace the prostitutes with trained spies. The women use sex to gather information from Nazi officials and foreign visitors.

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What happens

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, 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 the Nazisploitation genre. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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