Like most films in the genre the story revolves around a concentration camp. The film opens with Conrad von Starke (Andriano Micantoni) driving through the countryside of Germany as the voice over plays of a trail of an ex-Nazi at Nuremberg. Starke arrives at a meeting with a woman named Lise (Daniela Levy an Italian TV presenter and future UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Daniela Poggi), a woman who provided the evidence needed to get him off of the charges. Lise was one inmates at the concentration camp Starke ran. She takes him to the remnants of the camp where they make love and then a series of flashbacks begin.
The camp is not your normal prisoner of war camp. To begin with only women are taken to this camp. They are separated between those who will work the camp and those who will become playthings for those in charge and soldiers brought there on leave. These soldiers are allowed to do whatever they want with the women with the exception of getting them pregnant since the Nazis believe that Jewish women are beneath them.
As time progresses Commandant Starke takes on Lise as his own personal pet. She seems unable to break and he has made up his mind that he will be the one to break her. But this task will not be as easy as it seems.
On the plus side, 88 Films has done a fantastic job with
this release. The quality of the film scan remastered in 2k from the original
camera negative looks cleaner than one would expect from a film that mainly
showed in grindhouses in the US and art theaters in Europe. In addition to that
this offering presents the film in its uncut form. This is the first edition of
this film to be released in the US and fans of Nazisploitation films will be
flocking to add this one to their collection.
Those fans will delight in the fact the films offers them everything the genre has offered in the past and more. In addition to that the folks at 88 Films have included some great extras as well. One of those is a reversible mini-poster for the film. There is also an audio commentary track by critic and author Samm Deighan and another audio commentary track by Italian movie specialists Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thomson.
Now the downside, keeping in mind this is my personal opinion. If you find a movie filled with rape, incest, cannibalism, people sodomized by bats, sexual deviancy and worse to your liking then I have to wonder what world you were raised in. This film features all of that. A woman who is menstruating is found unworthy of being raped and degraded so instead they feed her to the starving Dobermans. A group of Nazis having a fine dining experience have no issue when finding out the meat in the meal is unborn Jewish infants. Not only that, when one of the prisoners passes out, they coat her in the meat and roast her there on the table.
The film is considered one of the more “artistic” films of the genre. This is in part because there are momentary sequences where there is less taking place visually and instead we hear about how the Jews are less than and unworthy of existence.
There is a story here and it’s one of degradation, torture and sexual deviancy. Being Nazis one has to assume this was a group that no one would complain about as being depicted this way. The story all of this is wrapped around is thin at best. It does have a method to the madness at the end of the film but it is still a depressing feature to have to wait for that one moment to happen.
I have no doubt that this film will be making its way to the hands of collectors long waiting for a US release. One of the UK’s video nasties it will also do well there. For the more average movie buff watch this at your own risk.
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