SS Experiment Camp
{{Infobox film
| name = SS Experiment Camp
| image = Ss experiment camp.jpg
| caption = British video release poster
| director = Sergio Garrone
| producer =
| writer = Sergio Chiusi
Vinicio Marinucci
Sergio Garrone
| narrator =
| starring = Mircha Carven
Paola Corazzi
Giorgio Cerioni
| music = Vasili Kojucharov
Roberto Pregadio
| cinematography = Maurizio Centini
| editing = Cesare Bianchini
| studio =
| distributor = Variety Distribution
| released = {{Film date|1976}}
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
SS Experiment Camp (also known as SS Experiment Love Camp; original release title: Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur) is a 1976 Nazi exploitation film directed by Sergio Garrone. The plot concerns non-consensual sexual experimenting with female prisoners of a concentration camp run by Colonel von Kleiben (Giorgio Cerioni), a Nazi officer who needs a testicle transplant after being castrated by a Russian girl.Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis (editors), Monsters in The Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture, page 127 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2010). {{ISBN|978-0-313-38216-1}} It gained infamy in the 1980s for its controversial themes and a public advertising campaign that involved obscene, suggestive posters. The film was banned in some countries, including the United Kingdom, where the film was subject to prosecution as one of the films known as "video nasties"; a title used in the press and by campaigners that came to be used for a list of films that could be found obscene under the Obscene Publications Act.
Cast
- Mircha Carven as Helmut
- Giorgio Cerioni as Col. Von Kleiben
- Paola Corazzi as Mirelle
- Giovanna Mainardi as
- Serafino Profumo as The Sergeant
- Attilio Dottesio as Dr. Steiner
- Patrizia Melega Dr. Renke
- Almina De Sanzio
- Matilde Dall'Aglio as
- Agnes Kalpagos as Margot
Controversy
Bizarre Magazine, in a 2004 overview of the Naziploitation genre, said the following: "Its advertising campaign, an image of a semi-naked woman hanging upside-down from a crucifix, was instrumental in bringing unwanted attention to the Nasties, although, beyond that, its infamy is unwarranted".Bizarre Magazine, November 2004 issue A similar view of it was taken by the British Board of Film Classification, who passed it uncut the next year, noting "Despite the questionable taste of basing an exploitation film in a concentration camp, the sexual activity itself was consensual and the level of potentially eroticised violence sufficiently limited".[https://darkroom.bbfc.co.uk/original/364556537d0c8eaa5fa462639d23e013:f12a1ec813cf414a2b62785531f8dabd/bbfc-annual-report-2005.pdf BBFC Annual Report, 2005]
However, it was denounced in by the Sunday Times[https://web.archive.org/web/20081013010107/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article3257073.ece Stop this debasing film -Times Online] and Sunday Express[http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/32920/Outrage-at-sick-Nazi-DVDs-for-sale Daily Express :: UK News :: Outrage at sick Nazi DVDs for sale] at the time of Holocaust Memorial Day, and cited by MPs Julian Brazier and Keith Vaz as part of their attempts to tighten the film banning system.{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3257530.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616131043/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3257530.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2011|title = TLS - Times Literary Supplement}}
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0074768|SS Experiment Camp}}
- [https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/ss-experiment-love-camp/ SS Experiment Camp] at Variety Distribution
Category:Italian sexploitation films
Category:1970s Italian-language films
Category:Italian thriller films
Category:Nazi exploitation films
Category:Obscenity controversies in film