Special SS Women (1976)
Special SS Women aka Le deportate della sezione speciale SS ) is an erotic-drama film from 1976 directed by Rino Di Silvestro. The film is considered the first Italian nazisploitation film, after Tinto Brass’ exploitation film Salon Kitty.
Plot
In Nazi Germany, a group of female prisoners are transported by train to an SS concentration camp and subjected to torture by the camp commandant (John Steiner) and his guards which include a lesbian warden.
There is also a joint suicide by cyanide capsule of a guard and his inmate lover just before they are forced to make love before the entire camp. Meanwhile the commandant develops an infatuation with a particular inmate, Tania Nobel, who he was in love with before the war and who rejected him in favor of another man, who is later murdered on the orders of the commandant. After initially attempting to starve herself, she feigns falling in love with him. But maybe she has other plans with him…
Making of Special SS Women
All the interiors for the prison camp were filmed at Bracciano Castle in Bracciano, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
The film was refused a UK cinema certificate in 1977 by the BBFC.
John Steiner revealed in an interview that during the shooting of one scene involving numerous nude actresses that the crew members and were more looking at his SS uniform than at the naked women.
Rino Di Silvestro did research on all the badges and uniforms worn by both the Nazi officers and the prisoners in the concentration camp.
Lina Polito was terrified when she read the script. Especially for nude scenes. Rino Di Silvestro told her, and then had him add on her contract, that she would never shoot completely naked. Therefor she had a some coverage, a triangle on her pubis and stars on her nipples. Silvestro filmed it in such a way that these covers were never seen. And she finally looked naked, but she wasn’t.
Notable scenes
The ending.
Our view on Special SS Women
Director Rino Di Silvestri really delivers the lowdown sleazy material in Special SS Women. There is plentiful nudity, two group shower scenes, pubic hair shaving, rape, lesbianism, voyeurism, catfights, degradation, castration and perversion galore. Exploitflix rare flic!
Trailer
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Where to buy
DVD/VHS/Betamax/VCC LP
Watch online
Details
Genre: nazploitation
Released in: 1976
Era: seventies
Starring: John Steiner, Lina Polito
Director: Rino di Silvestro
Poster artist: Unknown
Country: Italy
