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In post World War II Germany, Conrad Starker (Adriano Micantoni),
former commander of an especially brutal concentration camp that also
doubled as a brothel for Whermacht-soldiers, meets up with one of his
inmates, Lise (Daniela Poggi), the very one whose testimony saved him from
punishment at his post-war trial. And yet, why? Back in the war, Lise
was sent to Starker's concentration camp, and she was totally numb to
everything, just wanted to die. So Starker devised more and more brutal
ways to torture her, just to beg for mercy. But she won't, and her fellow
inmates who beg for mercy for her are usually tortured, sometimes even
killed for it. Eventually though, Lise proves so far gone mentally that
she can't be tortured anymore, and the camp doctor (Fulvio Ricciardi)
finds out why Lise is like she is, she feels guilty of having betrayed her
(naturally Jewish) parents to the Gestapo, and now can't live with the
guilt. But the doctor finds out that it wasn't really her betrayal that
got her parents deported but the local priest had done the honours - and
he finds out just in time, too, as when he goes to tell Lise, she's about
to throw herself to the camp's bloodthirsty dobermanns. This is a turning
point in Lise's life, and she quickly learns how to play the commander's
game and eventually becomes his love slave - but as such, she also learns
how to use her power, she even convinces him to kill his second in command
Alma (Maristella Greco). But one day, Lise finds out she's pregnant, and
things go on a downward spiral from there ... Now don't take
above synopsis too seriously, as the story only takes backseat in this
movie behind the film showing its more than fair share of sleaze and
atrocities, including one scene where Commander Starker and company
actually flambé and eat a female inmate just so the resident scientist
(Renato Paracchi) can prove that Jews are good for something after all -
and that should also prove that the film pays little heed to historical
accuracy. So if after reading all of this you figure this movie's little
more than a piece of sleaze, it's hard to argue against it. But on the
flipside, it's also a perfect time capsule to a time where political
correctness didn't even factor into filmmaking, when it was still ok to
titilate and shock one's audience at the same time, as this movie's
overabundant not only with gruesomeness but also with nudity, and when all
of this was still played with a totally straight face, devoid of any
irony. So a good film this is not, but at the same time a very nice piece
of nazisploitation.
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