I also consider it a perversion of CABARET since it seems to want to ape many of the same features that that earlier film had.
Supposedly based on a true story, this one concerns the goings on in a brothel in Berlin during WWII run by Kitty (Ingrid Thulin) and the use of wiretaps by the SS to monitor their customers. Only nobody told Kitty about this, including Helmet Berger who plays the SS officer in charge of the operation.
Tinto Brass scenes of depravity include:
An autopsy of a woman after she died from a self-induced abortion.
Actual pigs being slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We get graphic close ups of their innards.
A scene where a group of SS men and women strip and perform boring, un-erotic soft-core sex in an auditorium.
Then we see a deformed midget attempt to have sex with a normal looking woman in a cell that has grids painted on the wall
There are other cells down the hall where various women are having soft-core sex with ugly men, including one who is a double-amputee.
What's the point? To exploit these people's deformities? Blah
The Blue Underground DVD uses an excellent widescreen print along with an extra disc containing interviews with director Brass and set designer Ken Adam, himself a German jew who was forced to flee Germany in the 30s. And they are pretty good sets, too.
With Teresa Ann Savoy as the anti-Nazi whore, John Ireland as the visiting American who helps Kitty out, and Tina Aumont as Herta Wallenberg.
4 out of 10
Supposedly based on a true story, this one concerns the goings on in a brothel in Berlin during WWII run by Kitty (Ingrid Thulin) and the use of wiretaps by the SS to monitor their customers. Only nobody told Kitty about this, including Helmet Berger who plays the SS officer in charge of the operation.
Tinto Brass scenes of depravity include:
An autopsy of a woman after she died from a self-induced abortion.
Actual pigs being slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We get graphic close ups of their innards.
A scene where a group of SS men and women strip and perform boring, un-erotic soft-core sex in an auditorium.
Then we see a deformed midget attempt to have sex with a normal looking woman in a cell that has grids painted on the wall
There are other cells down the hall where various women are having soft-core sex with ugly men, including one who is a double-amputee.
What's the point? To exploit these people's deformities? Blah
The Blue Underground DVD uses an excellent widescreen print along with an extra disc containing interviews with director Brass and set designer Ken Adam, himself a German jew who was forced to flee Germany in the 30s. And they are pretty good sets, too.
With Teresa Ann Savoy as the anti-Nazi whore, John Ireland as the visiting American who helps Kitty out, and Tina Aumont as Herta Wallenberg.
4 out of 10