SS Lager 5: L'Inferno delle Donne

SS Camp: Women's Hell
SS Camp 5: Women's Hell

Italy 1977
produced by
SEFI Cinematografica
directed by Sergio Garrone
starring Paola Corazzi, Rita Manna, Giorgio Cerioni, Serafino Profumo, Attilio Dottesio, Patrizia Melega, Paola D'Edigio, Vincenzo Amici, Paola Lelio, Mariella Fugiuele, Agnes Kalpagos
story by Tecla Romanelli, screenplay by Sergio Garrone, Vinicio Marinucci, music by Vasili Kojucharov, Roberto Pregadio

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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These nasty Nazis are at it again, turning their female prisoners either into whores to entertain their army's top brass or handing them over to evil doctors Karl and Strasser (Giorgio Cerioni) for inhuman experiments - and the girls only hope is Doctor Abraham (Attilio Dottesio) a Jewish scientist the Nazis leave alive because of his brilliant mind, and who only helps them because they keep his daughter Edith (Paola Corazzi) hostage.

A group of the girls led by Deborah (Paola D'Egidio) try to break out of the camp, but they are stopped cold by Lt Hans (Serafino Profumo) - who by the way later impregnates Edith - and lesbian warden Greta (Patrizia Melega), who burn them in cold blood and later torture their accomplices to death.

The most proficient of the girls might be black Alina (Rita Manna), who weasels her way into the bed of Doctor Strasser - to win his trust, gain access to his weapons, get valuable information about the Allied Force's progress as soon as him, and plan a prison revolt ... and when the time is right and the Nazis are already ready to abandon camp and kill all the prisoners, Alina and company - including Doctor Abraham and his daughter Edith - succeed in overthrowing their Nazi opressors.

Filmed back to back with SS Experiment Love Camp, the two films share much of the principal cast and crew and even quite a bit of plot, too. Ultimately, this is another stupid piece of Nazisploitation, a film that makes up Nazi atrocities with little regard to historical facts (though without the slightest doubt the Nazis really were atrocious, probably even more so than in this film), but using its historical background merely as an excuse for sensationalism. The resulting film is of course a piece of cinema one can easily be offended by for its milking of (alleged) Nazi atrocities for entertainment value (not made any better by extensive use of actual concentration camp footage), but at least in parts, the film is so superficial and in-your-face but also so silly that it's hard to be taken all that seriously. Actually, some of the scenes are pretty laugh-inducing, provided you can look beyond the obvious.

So yes, I won't deny for a second that SS Camp: Women's Hell is a bad film, but one with a certain so-bad-it's-good-quality.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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