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. The plot concerns non-consensual sexual

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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. 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

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as Helmut *

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as Col. Von Kleiben *

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as The Sergeant * Attilio Dottesio as Dr. Steiner *

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as Margot

Controversy

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'', 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". 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". However, it was denounced in by the ''

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'' at the time of Holocaust Memorial Day, and cited by MPs

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and Keith Vaz as part of their attempts to tighten the film banning system.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0074768, SS Experiment Camp
''SS Experiment Camp''
at Variety Distribution 1976 films Italian sexploitation films 1970s Italian-language films Italian thriller films 1970s thriller films Nazi exploitation films Obscenity controversies in film Video nasties Films scored by Roberto Pregadio 1970s Italian films