Salon Kitty (film)

Salon Kitty is a 1976 eroticdrama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was coproduced 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 Incident, where the Sicherheitsdienst took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped and all the prostitutes replaced with trained spies in order to gather data on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries.

Salon Kitty was filmed mostly at Dear Studios in Rome, with some additional location filming in Germany. Production designer Ken Adam had recently suffered a nervous breakdown while working on Barry Lyndon, and he described his participation in this film as a creatively regenerative one. He has stated that the production was an enjoyable one, and that he feels Salon Kitty is underrated. Adam based his design of Wallenbergs apartment on his own memories of his familys apartment in World War IIera Berlin. Wallenbergs enormous office, though a set, allegedly features a real marble floor, as it was cheaper to use real marble than create a mockup version.Costumes and uniforms for the film were designed by Ugo Pericoli and Jost Jacob, and were constructed by Tirelli Costumi of Rome. Adam credited Jacob with the design of the kinky uniforms that Wallenberg wears throughout the film. ........

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