Deported Women Of The SS

This one gets off to kind of a slow start with a lot of time spent on character development that is ultimately unnecessary. Stick with it though; once the stage is set for the denouement, the pace picks up and the movie gets quite interesting and ultimately redeems itself as worth the time invested. Another plus is that hands rarely get overplayed (other than Steiner doing a fairly standard cold, sociopathic nazi schtick with the self-caricaturing accent and unlimited capacity for debauchery), and the more brutal points are made without much in the way of gratuitous gore. The movie survives - just - by the writing and performances. You should be able to pick this up for a lot less than the price indicated here; it's been released in a grindhouse/midnight movie series that I am pretty sure is available on Amazon as well.

Not an easy movie to watch, though it is helped that John Steiner is obviously not giving two craps about the movie and or his performance. As obvious by his interview on the disk which clearly gives away his opinion of the movie being less than stellar. Rino De Silvestro who passed away in 2009 gives a interview on here which is typical of one of his interviews on a disk, if you've seen his interview on Hanna D's disk you will get knocked over by the nearly crazy pretentiousness seeping off the man.He honestly rambles on and on about the stuff he researched for the production of this movie in detail to strive to be realistic. And honestly thinks he's out to create works of art. I don't even remember Lucio Fulci having this much delusional ego problems. This type of interview makes one pang for the earnest Claudio Fargasso interviews I've watched or Bruno Mattei ones.The movie in itself, is a rather Ok Nazi movie from Italy in the mid-70s, it's not as grim or serious as say Gestapo's Last Orgy or Women's Camp 119, but it's not nearly as goofy as SS Hell Camp or SS Girls.And it's sure as not like The Night Porter, Salo, Salon Kitty etc.But both interviews on the DVD from the Director and Star are funny, because they present polar opposite opinions on the film in both outrageously over the top ways.The other interview is one I steered clear of, a rather boring "expert" on these type of movies with a thick German Accent begins to speak at length about these type of movies and it can't get any more boring than this folks, he does this same schtick on the Intervision Gestapo's Last Orgy DVD.On the plus side this transfer restores the original opening credits that was missing on my previous DVD version from Full Moon's Grindhouse line which just had a Computer Generated title in English at the start and nothing more. These titles though are obviously sourced from a VHS, so yeah the quality's not great. But at least it's there.As for the movie it's not special, the T&A is there but you probably won't feel especially turned on by it, and right so, But it's better than Achtung! The Desert Tigers, that's for sure.

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item ok, not great