Achtung! The Desert Tigers

D: Luigi Batzella

Luigi Batzella (known also under his pseudonyms Ivan Kathansky or Paolo Solvay) director of the terrific "Nude for Satan" and "The Devils Wedding Night", delivers here another movie that would belong to the nazisploitation genre, but it´s not like any other, while films like "SS experiment love camp, "Gestapos last orgy" are quite similar in making style and tone this film definitely stands out! why? its trashy as hell! and you cant take it serious at alland actually i didnt expect anything else. Being a big fan of "Nude for Satan" i was quite curious about this batzella film, though i am not a fan of the nazisploitation genre and i wasn´t dissapointed. It´s not great as "Nude for satan" but it has surely some entertaining ultra trash moments. Still the theme is well lets say politically not correct, so just people who arent easily pissed off, can also enjoy this film in my opinion.The film starts with no big reason with war between soldiers, 15 minutes wih no deeper reason just stupid shooting, bombing, and all that mixed with (old) footage from other sources. did batzella think nobody notices the difference beteween the scenes ? anyway a terrific start, reall brainless trash cinema, then the film shows an ss camp where the soldiers are hangin around, one of the trashiest scene is when a generall says to a soldier he should whip a man (who´s captured and seems dead), the soldiers says"he´s allready dead" and the generall says "whip him anyway, you cant be safe" (!) and the soldier does so! Batzella seems to be a real fan of the whip (also shown in "Nude for Satan") in another scene a female ss soldier (a kind of ilsa) wants her female servant to whip her and tells her that she really loves it and so on.. till the woman starts to whip her and the female soldier obvioulsy enjojy it very much. In another scene the female soldier spies through the keyhole while the woman and a man are in a "getting it on" session, first she enjojys it watching them, but then she suddenly breaks the door with other soldiers just to give them the command to continue(!) and then to grab them.The man is then forced to drink piss from another soldier but refuses to do it, instead he throws the glass with piss on the commander and pays that with his life. The rest of the film is like the start and is full of ridiculous shooting and bombing. Like i said this is an entertaining trash bomb, and yes batzella seems to be the second polselli...

Kaput Lager - gli ultimi giorni delle SS (1976) D: Luigi Batzella Writing Credit: Luigi Batzella

Cast: Richard Harrison, Isarco Ravaiolo, Lea Lander, Agnes Kalpagos, Gordon Mitchell