X-Rated
March, 1977
Made in Italy by director Tinto Brass (subsequently hired for the forthcoming Caligula), Madam Kitty opens with an announcement that though the film's central incidents "will seem incredibly bizarre, they are true and based on documented fact." The facts concern a Nazi brothel in wartime Berlin, where every bed was bugged and every whore's heart belonged to Himmler. Sweden's Ingrid Thulin, who starred in some of Ingmar Bergman's landmark movies, broadly plays the title role opposite He...
