''SS Experiment Camp'' (also known as ''SS Experiment Love Camp''; original release title: ''Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur'') is a 1976

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film directed by

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. The plot concerns

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sexual experimenting with female prisoners of a

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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

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, where the film was subject to prosecution as one of the films known as "

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"; 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

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Cast

* Mircha Carven as Helmut *

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as Col. Von Kleiben * Paola Corazzi as Mirelle * Giovanna Mainardi as * Serafino Profumo as The Sergeant *

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as Dr. Steiner * Patrizia Melega Dr. Renke * Almina De Sanzio * Matilde Dall'Aglio as * Agnes Kalpagos 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

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, 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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'' and ''

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

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and

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

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0074768, SS Experiment Camp
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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