Ghoulumbe Better than most people think

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

glenn-aylett Salon Kitty is based on a true story of a brothel madam, Kitty Schmidt( called Kellermann for some reason in this film), who is forced into working for the Nazis when she is arrested for helping Jews escape from Germany and using a fake passport. The Gestapo decide to use her brothel, Salon Kitty, as a listening post where every room is bugged and the working girls report their conversations to the Gestapo each day.Firstly the film is unsettling in places and in one scene, where the prostitutes have an orgy with a group of dwarfs, is unnecessary and not based on fact. Also be prepared not just for conventional sex, but also lesbianism, transvestism and sado masochism, as the brothel catered for the kinkier tastes of its guests. However, once you get over this, Salon Kitty is a good film and based on true events.In particular Ingrid Thulin takes a good role as Kitty Schmidt. Her singing is as good as anything from Cabaret and in one memorable number she dresses up as half woman, half man. Also as one critic pointed, Kitty is the last relic of the decadent Berlin that existed before the Nazis and has little time for the regime, telling one whore who is a convinced Nazi, " I am a madam, I am above ideas", and when confronted by Wallenberg of the SS( based on the real life Walther Schellenberg) tells him when war is declared, " just because the war has started, we don't have to wear chastity belts".Also a good sub plot exists when a prostitute, who is a Nazi, falls for a Luftwaffe officer who hates the Nazis and wants to defect to Britain and gradually comes round to his way of thinking, although tragically he is found out by the bug in the prostitute's bedroom and shot by the Gestapo.Credit is due to the director Tinto Brass, later infamous for Caligula. What could have been a cheap and nasty Naziploitation film, and it inspired countless abysmal and unwatchable Naziploitation film, is actually a very well made film and apart from the tasteless scenes with the dwarfs, many of the sex scenes are tastefully shot and everything is made on location. I would recommend this film to anyone who is interested in one of the Third Reich's more bizarre projects.

Nazi_Fighter_David "Salon Kitty" is an exploitation and a serious study of Nazi atrocities...Kitty Kellermann runs a brothel that provides entertainment to the German elite… Unknown to her, it has been annoyed by a top SS officer to gain incriminating evidence against some of Germany's top general… One of the girls, Margherita, falls in love with a German officer who wants to defect to the Allies… The plot is discovered, and Margherita is used as an informer, but when she tells Madam Kitty about the goings-on in her house, she is outraged and plots revenge… The film indulges in many of the perversions and sexual humiliations the Germans inflicted on the whores of Salon Kitty...Tinto Brass directs the film with a heavy hand, focusing continually during the ending sequence to create a hypnotic effect… He doesn't shy away from the atrocities, and often takes intense pleasure in them... The characterizations are very firm and realistic, but the movie's harsh portrayal of much of the sexual activity has kept it out of the mainstream

kenjha In WW2 Germany, Gestapo officers spy on their own soldiers at a brothel to make sure they don't turn against the Fuhrer. Thulin and Berger are reunited after playing mother and son in "The Damned," cementing their places in the Decadence Hall of Shame. Thulin vamps through three songs, which is at least three too many. As one would expect from Brass, there is ample display of flesh. Savoy is an idealistic young woman with naked ambitions (well, naked anyway). The film is trashy fun as long as it is focusing on the salacious activities of those naughty Nazis. However, Brass decides to throw in some messages about love and war, making the film drag somewhat and go on too long.

EVOL666 SALON KITTY is a strange slice of Nazisploit cinema. It's a film that starts off high on the sleaze-meter, but gradually evolves into a serious "period-drama" - and in my opinion - this is what kills the film. The first half-hour or so get you psyched up for a raunchy and perverse exploit film, but as it goes on, SALON KITTY turns into a romantic drama and serious war film. That's not to say that I can't enjoy a serious film, but that's not what I was expecting going into this one...SALON KITTY is actually the name of a whorehouse, run by a madame named (you guessed it...), Kitty. The Nazi's shut down her house-of-ill-repute and set her up with some new digs, complete with surveillance devices in the girl's rooms for spying on their fellow Nazi comrades in order for power-hungry Helmut to get the dirt on his pals. Meanwhile, Margherita and a bunch of other SS sluts are handpicked to be ho's for the new salon (keep an eye out for the cross-eyed freak from SALO as one of the salon patrons...) - and it's their duty to service the high-class clientele. Margherita ends up falling for a Nazi pilot who decides he wants out of the Reich - and this causes problems all-around. Eventually, Margherita is pitted against Helmut in a life-or-death power struggle of lies and betrayal...First off - SALON KITTY is actually a very good film. The cinematography is excellent, the sets are lavish, the acting is all very good, and the storyline is pretty top-notch. The problem is - that if I wanted to watch a serious war drama, I'd watch the DIRTY DOZEN or something. Being that SALON KITTY was from the same man that gave us the epic sleaze "masterpiece" CALIGULA, KITTY is just way too weak for an exploit film. The beginning starts off promising with a Nazi orgy, and a particularly "fun" set of scenes where the "ho's-in-training" are evaluated on their "abilities". This awesome scene includes a chick boning a hunch-backed midget, another chick bangin' a double-amputee, another getting raped by the same nasty scumbag that plays "the Beast" in SS HELL CAMP, another chick screwing a tattooed Gypsy, and one girl trying to blow a concentration camp victim - now that's primo sleaze - but unfortunately, it doesn't last, and although there is still a ton of soft-core sex and nudity throughout, the "serious" plot gets in the way of the fun. Definitely worth a look to exploit/Nazisploit fans - but don't expect too much sleaze - the first half-hour or so is nothing' but a tease...7/10