L'ultima orgia del III Reich

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with a man named Conrad von Starke (Adriano Micantoni) the Commandant driving down a road, listening to a war crimes trial on the radio. He stops the car and exits at the ruins of an old death camp. There he meets Lise Cohen (Daniela Poggi). It is revealed that Lise is a former prisoner of the camp and the commandant has arranged to meet her several years after World War II, to thank her for testimony she provided which saved him from certain death. Lise and the Commandant make love.
Lise has a flashback to the time she spent at the camp during the war. A shipment of female prisoners arrives. Some are immediately sent to the gas chamber and some burned alive. In a hall, other women are stripped naked and subjected to an orgy by members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, aroused after watching a porn film which includes photos of rape, mother-daughter incest, bondage, coprophagia, and extreme sex. The female inmates are then raped, tortured, sodomized with bats, and sexually humiliated while the Commandant and his lover Alma (Maristella Greco), a fellow SS officer, watch in excitement.
Later, a woman has sex with an SS guard, who is himself shot when he speaks out against her rape by other guards. An inmate having her menstrual cycle is ordered to be thrown to the dogs by Alma, and more sex scenes between guards and inmates take place.
Meanwhile, Starke and his SS staff debate Nazi theories at the dinner table, and an SS Guard tells them of his hopes that there will one day be farms so the Jews can be eaten as a food source. The staff become aroused by this and practice both cannibalism and infanticide, eating a stew made of unborn Jewish infants. When one of the female prisoners passes out in shock, they douse her body in brandy and set it alight, before eating her corpse as well.
Starke becomes interested in Lise, finding himself obsessed by her unbreakable spirit. Since whatever he does to torture her does not demoralize her, Starke grows angry and drops her only friend at the camp into a pit of quicklime as Lise, stripped nude and hanging from her wrists, is forced to watch. The Commandant threatens to drop Lise into the pit as well. Unfazed by this, Lise is whipped, has her head lowered into a box filled with rats (clearly gerbils in the film), and raped, but still she does not cry out. She goes to the hospital and is treated by a pacifistic young Doctor (Fulvio Ricciardi), revealing to him why she does not cry. She wants to die, as she betrayed her family to the Nazis years earlier and feels intense guilt about it. When the Doctor tells her it was not her fault, she becomes determined to survive. She has sex with the Doctor, reaffirming her decision to live.
Lise is tortured further by Starke, who tells her he has fallen in love with her. She claims to love him as well, and begins an extreme sexual relationship with him, willingly donning a gruesome belt made of the scalps of fellow inmates to prove her affections. The Commandant is later sodomized with his own whip by jealous Alma, who realizes the extent of Starke's feelings for Lise. In response, he fatally strangles Alma.
Lise gives birth to a child, but the baby is killed by the Commandant because it is half-Jewish, and a "half-breed" would have no place in the world. Back in the present-day, Lise and Starke still stand in the ruined camp and are having sex. Lise shoots him and his body falls into a pit. In alternate edits of the film, Lise shoots Starke and then herself.

Tags: violence, cruelty, murder, sadist, flashback

Review:
This is a nazisploitation flick - there's a concentration camp for Jewish women (for coincidence, most of them young and pretty), there is a scene in which a woman is thrown to the dogs for feeding them; in another one young girls are standing side by side waiting to be raped by German soldiers; and there's also a sadomasochistic relationship between Commandant Starker and a woman officer and so on.....
But beyond these attractions, "L'Ultima Orgia del III Reich" is about a love relationship between Commandant Starker and a Jewish girl, Lise.
It is a love relationship born first from fear - the omnipresent death surrounding and threatening everything had succeeded in drowning hate in a lake of numbness - Lise had hardened herself into indifference and Starker's violence stirs something in her.
There's a moment in which Starker says to Lise: "I showed you death, now you can start to really live".But this a a doomed relationship - born in a concentration camp, fed by fear and numbness, aroused by death and violence and corroded by hate and quiet despair.
Blood and guts won't do it: if you've ever seen a movie like "Flower Of Flesh And Blood", you hardly blink at a badly-acted torture scene or two.
Nastiness isn't enough: those who've sat through the rape scene in "I Spit On Your Grave" won't find any of the sexual violence in "Gestapo's Last Orgy" remotely disturbing.
So why is this strange, strange movie more unsettling than any of the other obscure trash/gore/exploitation flicks some of us love so much?Unlike "SS Experiment Camp" or "The Beast In Heat", "The Gestapo's Last Orgy" isn't quite ridiculous enough to be camp...unlike "Ilsa, She Wolf Of The SS", it's not an outrageous bad-taste romp for whooping drive-in punters.
Influenced more by "The Night Porter" than anything else, this unsavoury bucket of softcore death-camp swill actually thinks it's A Proper Movie.Director Cesare Canavari has a ball ripping off Fellini, Godard, Pasolini and Tinto Brass on a college-project budget, while the script attempts to explore Sadeian themes with some level of seriousness.
But this is a movie in which Nazis sit round a dinner table saying "there's nothing better than a pot-roast of unborn Jew!" - in a "dramatic" boat scene, a technician can be seen kneeling in the back of the boat.
The Gestapo's Last Orgy concerns an unlikely romance between a Nazi death camp commandant and a Jewish female prisoner, Lise Cohen.
But the commandant's obsession also offers her hope of salvation.As an example of the Naziploitation sub-genre, The Gestapo's Last Orgy is a more hard-edged entry than the very silly SS Experiment Camp.
That is not to say that the film is a convincing depiction of events in a Nazi death camp - it is pretty ridiculous a lot of the time.
Unlike the extremely camp exercise in bad taste that is 'Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS' , Gestapo's Last Orgy is a more unflinching look at the atrocities committed in a Nazi concentration camp, shot in a quasi-serious style.
With its harrowing scenes of sexual abuse and violent death and torture, it is easy to understand why this movie might be considered more shocking than other similarly themed flicks from the same era; but is delivering a rawer and nastier (but still very exploitative) movie any more distasteful or disrespectful than making light of the subject matter?In my opinion, all Nazisploitation movies are treading on dodgy ground and if you're going to use such a touchy subject to make a film that is designed to titillate and disgust, then you might as well go the whole hog.
Director Cesare Canevari certainly thinks so; with Gestapo's Last Orgy, he delivers an often sickening piece of no holds barred cinema that should satisfy most fans of extreme movie-making.Daniela Poggi plays Lise Cohen, a beautiful young Jewish woman being held in a Nazi 'love camp'.
In order to survive, she must now pretend that von Starker has succeeded in breaking her, and become his lover...With scenes of mass extermination, violent rape, and general lack of respect for human life, Canevari's sick flick is certainly disturbing; although not packed with the the wall-to-wall gore that one might expect, the sheer nastiness of some moments make this one hard to stomach at times.
When the head honchos at the camp tuck into a meal made from 'unborn Jew', or douse a woman in Cognac and set her on fire, it's not necessarily the visuals that will make you gag, but the idea being portrayed.Occasionally the pace of the movie lulls and sometimes Canevari sees fit to get rather pretentious with his direction, but, on the whole, the film is a decent enough watch for those seeking some sleaze.
Daniela Levy stars as Lise Cohen, a Jewish woman caught in World War 2 and sent to a concentration camp that doubles as a Nazi brothel for the exhausted soldiers.
One such scene was an interesting dinner scene that served up equal parts corny Nazi propaganda-like dialogue to go with their meal of Jewish baby flesh (nasty).
One scene however was quite funny where Starker trying to break Lise suspends her over a fish tank of flesh-eating rats (in reality a whole bunch of friendly gerbils).
Basic story- Lise is taken to a camp where the head Nazi-guy tries to break her will with torture.
The human-flesh-dinner-scene comes to mind...but overall this film is rather dull and not very shocking.
Commandant Conrad von Starker (Marc Loud) feels challenged by her behavior and decides to torture her, making she faces the horror of death.
This type of 'exploitation movie' recalls `Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS', with a shallow drama which recalls `The Night Porter' and violence like `Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom'.
Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle.
Once she realizes her guilt is unfounded, Lise begins to play Starker's game, but even though she begins living a better life, she doesn't forget the atrocities she has seen and experienced.The titles are the best part of this film.
This is the fifth Nazisploitation film that I've watched after the arty THE DAMNED (1969) and THE NIGHT PORTER (1974), and the more exploitative NAZI LOVE CAMP 27 (1977) and THE RED NIGHTS OF THE GESTAPO (1977); it's reputed as the most infamous of the lot, but I was disappointed to discover that the version I ended up with was shorn of about 10 minutes of "sick footage" (which, reportedly, includes a woman being burned alive and a cannibalistic sequence where the prisoners serve as dinner for the Nazis)!
That said, what's left in would still alarm and profoundly disturb most conservative viewers.The film opens with an audacious voice-over of a Nazi war-crime trial as a man (later revealed to have been the Commandant of a concentration camp-cum-makeshift brothel for German soldiers returning from the front!) is making his way by car to a rendezvous with his lover (a Jewish girl he frequently victimized during the war); the meeting place, in fact, is the ruins of the camp itself  thus resembling most closely the central relationship within THE NIGHT PORTER.
Characterization is particularly of interest here (though this element was even more successful in the afore-mentioned NAZI LOVE CAMP 27): the protagonist faces the myriad beatings and constant degradation with utmost stoicism  believing herself responsible for her family's capture, she has no desire to live (she's played by Daniela Poggi  who, years later, would become the conductor of a long-running TV show about the search for real-life missing persons and now, obviously, prefers to totally exclude the picture from her curriculum!); the Commandant is a closet masochist who's frequently willingly dominated by his female (if masculine-looking) warden; the latter, then, is a standard figure in this type of film  though she's curiously absent for much of the mid-section (returning, in fact, merely for her hasty comeuppance).Events constantly switch from the present, as the two lovers wander about the place and then give in to their passion for one another, to the past (including the girl's liberating bed-romp with the sympathetic camp doctor, her eventual ascension to position of the Commandant's favorite  even turning down a plea of help from her former prison companion  and culminating in the 'loss' of her child because it has no place in the Nazi-ruled 'perfect' world of the future); incidentally, the abrupt downbeat ending is predictable virtually from the get-go.
Despite featuring a haunting theme, augmented by half-spoken German lyrics, I reiterate that the end product (pompously renamed CALIGULA REINCARNATED AS Hitler in some quarters!) is inferior to NAZI LOVE CAMP 27  or, for that matter, the director's other work that I've come across.
If it's a bad film you're after, then I recommend seeing anything from the abysmal Nazisploitation sub-genre, as unless I'm missing something; they're all terrible!
My only reason for bothering with this film is because of the fact that it was a part of the DPP's Video Nasty list back in the eighties, and I'm pleased to say that now I've seen three of the four Nazisploitation flicks on the list, I only have one left to go (the almost certainly mind numbing Love Camp 7).
The plot has something to do with a prisoner of war whom various sick Nazi's see fit to experiment on, only for her to start playing her own game with them...or something.
Lise Cohen is taken to a special Nazi camp for Jewish women,a camp run as a bordello where the most depraved sexual fantasies can become sensual reality.The camp is run by sadistic Commandant Starker and his revolting minion Alma.Starker becomes frustrated when Lise demonstrates no fear,so he subjects her to torture and sexual humiliation."Gestapo's Last Orgy" is a sleazy Nazisploitation flick with enough torture and depravity to satisfy any self-respecting smut-peddler.The banquet sequence with 'pot roast of unborn Jew' is especially memorable as is the sequence of Lise being tied up naked,by her feet over a glass container of rats.If you are into depraved 70's Italian exploitation cinema "Gestapo's Last Orgy" is one to watch.8 out of 10..
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*"Gestapo's Last Orgy" is the touching story of a blonde prisoner of war and her determined and sadistic Nazi captor.
"What fun would it be to kill you when you have no desire to live." Dull Nazi exploitation film..
L' Ultima Orgia del III Reich, or under it's more common Gestapo's Last Orgy & the ridiculous Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler (there's nothing about reincarnation & Hitler never makes an appearance, talk about false advertising!) English titles, starts with ex Nazi prisoner Lise Cohen (Daniela Poggi as Daniela Levy) several years after she was freed meeting up with sadistic camp commander Cammandant Conrad von Staker (Marc Loud) at the abandoned ruins of the prisoner of war camp where they first met many years ago.
Although Staker dumps her best friend in quicklime & threatens her with killer hamsters eventually they begin to fall in love, but surely an affair between a Nazi officer & Jewish prisoner during World War II will never work out...This Italian produced film was co-written, produced & directed by Cesare Canevari & found some undeserved notoriety by being banned in the UK & placed on the 'Video Nasties' list.
Despite it's reputation & subject matter L' Ultima Orgia del III Reich isn't anything to get too excited about, maybe the contents of this film were considered shocking & offencive back in the 80's but today with graphic sex & violence common place on our cinema & TV screens this film might turn out to be a bit of a disappointment for exploitation fans.
The script by Canevari & Antonio Lucarella is a little slow, somewhat dull, monotonous (it never leaves the confines of the camp) & uneventful while it also takes itself far too seriously, there are plenty of Nazi speech's about their superiority & that these Jewish women must suffer.
Technically L' Ultima Orgia del III Reich is not too bad at all & is really the only thing it has going for it, the sets & production design are nice enough, the effects, music & cinematography are decent & it's better made than most other films of this type.
I can't say I enjoyed L' Ultima Orgia del III Reich that much, despite it's reputation & a few sweaty sex scenes there isn't much happening here, to give it some credit it's well made & at least tries to tell a story between the average exploitation elements even if it didn't quite succeed in entertaining me that much.
If your looking for a women in prison film that delivers the exploitation goods then may I suggest you track down the Ilsa films, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975), Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), Ilsa, The Wicked Warden (1977) & Ilsa, The Tigress of Siberia (1977) or the similar-ish Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom (1976) instead.
From the "Zombie"- and "Cannibal"-genres to "Witch hunter"- and "raped nuns"-sub genres, the "Nazi-exploitation"-films were more or less the logic conclusion.
Then get filming." Underling: "But you really think our audience will consider SS-prison-guards as bad guys?" Producer (after another moment ofthoughts): "Then film a scene where the protagonists dine on "pot roast of unborn Jew", that should do the trick." Underling: "We still have some footage of incest and coprophilia, shouldn't we use them before the negatives start to fade?" Producer: "Make it so and be quick about it.
In Italian the title translates to 'Last Orgy of the Third Reich' but in English the film is known under the title 'Gestapo's Last Orgy.' But believe or not, this actually one of the better entries in the Nazisploitation genre, and certainly one of the most depraved.The plot of the movie is simple; Lise Cohen (played by future UNICEF member Daniella Poggi under the alias Daniella Levy) is meeting up with Commandant Starker at the ruins of the female death camp she was sent to.
There, we see through flashbacks what happened to her at the site: as a prisoner, her iron will and refusal to show fears leads to interest from the Commandant of the camp, who begins to take interest in trying to break her through humiliation and torture.
Granted there a couple of obvious problems with such a low budget film, look no further than the infamous "killer gerbil" scene (they're supposed to be rats!), or even one of the other torture scenes (yeah I'm sure that's really what quicklime looks like!).Now is the part where I get to talk about the actual content of the movie.
Like all Nazisploitation movies, it is not the Nazis themselves being exploited, but the atrocities they committed.
This is one of the few films in the genre to actually refer to the prisoners as Jews, and uses such wonderful adjectives as "subhuman" and "undesirable." Surprisingly, the violence is rather limited when compared to some of the other exploitation movies of the time period, but the film decided to make up for that with plenty of disturbing scenes and imagery to go along with the touchy script, including the necessary overabundance of swastikas and Nazi imagery, and just about any woman in this movie is seen naked at one point.
The most common seems to be a cut using the Gestapo's Last Orgy title that cuts out a good chunk of the notorious dinner scene as well as some shots of victims dying and/or suffering in the camp, and contains a shortened ending.
having just watched this nasty Nazi film i wanted to get my feelings out before they left me.
i am actually a fan of these Nazi exploitation films for whatever reason.
having first read about The Gestapos Last Orgy close to three years ago in a book titled Eaten Alive!: Italian Cannibal And Zombie Films,i had always wanted to see it but could never find a legit DVD.
it is revealed that in an attempt to break her will through physical and mental torture, the Nazi and prisoner developed a bizarre relationship.
this opens the door for the films scenes of sexual depravity and violence, the highlights being a massive rape/orgy, a woman fed to vicious attack dogs for having her period, and of course, the films most infamous and talked about scene, the dinner scene.
there are a few other bits of violence and sadism including women being dissolved in quick lime and tormented by hungry rats and of course a huge amount of graphic sex and nudity including one of the most ridiculous sex scenes i've ever seen between a female prisoner and Nazi doctor that really comes out of nowhere and goes on for what feels like ten minutes.
this entry in the Nazi exploitation genre occasionally shows a bit of class and moves into art-house territory with some truly fantastic editing and camera work.
you don't watch Nazi exploitation films for good acting or production values, you watch them to see sick, sadistic, depraved, perverted, and bizarre acts of human cruelty and outrageous sleaze.
The Gestapos Last Orgy delivers the goods in terms of exploitation with the exception of a few dull spots and the moments of "art" film making are still nice despite feeling uneven.
in closing, any fan of Nazi exploitation and Italian exploitation as a whole will want to seek this film out.
Sadistic and merciless concentration camp Commandant Conrad von Starker (splendidly played with venomous aplomb by Adriano Micantoni) runs his camp as a brothel for Nazi soldiers seeking rest and pleasure from combat.
Starker becomes determined to break the fierce iron will of beautiful blonde Jewish prisoner Lise Cohen (an excellent performance by the lovely Daniela Poggi).