SS Experiment Camp

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SS Experiment Camp
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British video release poster
Directed by Sergio Garrone
Written bySergio Chiusi
Vinicio Marinucci
Sergio Garrone
StarringMircha Carven
Paola Corazzi
Giorgio Cerioni
CinematographyMaurizio Centini
Edited byCesare Bianchini
Music byVasili Kojucharov
Roberto Pregadio
Distributed by Variety Distribution
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
91 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

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. [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.

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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". [2] 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". [3]

However, it was denounced in by the Sunday Times [4] and Sunday Express [5] 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. [6]

In France, on 1977, this movie was refused a certificate for unduly exploiting the subject of Nazi tortures. [7] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Bizarre Magazine, November 2004 issue
  3. ↑ BBFC Annual Report, 2005
  4. ↑ Stop this debasing film -Times Online
  5. ↑ Daily Express :: UK News :: Outrage at sick Nazi DVDs for sale
  6. ↑ "TLS - Times Literary Supplement". Archived from the original on June 16, 2011.
  7. ↑ Écran (in French). Éditions de l'Atalante. 1978. p. 81.
  8. ↑ "• LE FILM DE R. BRESSON AUTORISÉ AUX MINEURS • DEUX FILMS FRAPPÉS D'INTERDICTION TOTALE". Le Monde (in French). 1977-06-16. Retrieved 2025-08-16. ...commission de contrôle des films cinématographiques, d'interdire totalement la distribution de deux films, le Camp des filles perdues et Mondo Homo, "en raison de leur caractère pornographique et, surtout, de leur caractère gravement attentatoire à la dignité de l'homme du fait pour le premier de l'évocation purement réprobatrice, mais en fait complaisante, de tortures nazies ; et, pour le second, de la spéculation des manifestations sadomasochistes et d'une complaisance pathologique dans l'ignominie ", précise un communiqué.[...Commission for the Control of Cinematographic Films, to completely ban the distribution of two films, SS Experiment Camp and Mondo Homo, "because of their pornographic nature and, above all, their seriously detrimental nature to human dignity due to the purely disapproving, but in fact complacent, evocation of Nazi torture in the first; and, for the second, the speculation of sadomasochistic manifestations and a pathological complacency in ignominy," states a press release.]
  9. ↑ Maarek, Philippe J. (1982). La censure cinématographique (in French). Librairies techniques. p. 136. ISBN   978-2-7111-0382-9.
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