Salon Kitty (1976)
Depraved. Decadent. Damned.
Genre : Drama, War
Runtime : 2H 10M
Director : Tinto Brass
Writer : Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco
Synopsis
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. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
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