Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many more.
Direction
Holwill somehow makes talking heads feel like conspiracy-theory YouTube.
Production
Tracking down Ilsa herself? Absolute king/queen behavior.
Editing
Juxtaposing campy trailers with dead-serious analysis = perfect tonal whiplash.
Director
Naomi Holwill
Dyanne Thorne
Self
Rino Di Silvestro
Himself
Liliana Cavani
Self -Director
Sergio Garrone
Himself
Kim Newman
Self - Author / Critic
Helmut Berger
(archive footage)
Dirk Bogarde
(archive footage)
Ingrid Thulin
(archive footage)
Mario Caiano
Self - Director (archive footage)
Sergio D'Offizi
Self - Cinematographer
Malisa Longo
Self - Actress
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dyanne Thorne was a Las Vegas showgirl before becoming cinema's most infamous Nazi — she originally took the Ilsa role because the paycheck meant her husband could finish his PhD.
The documentary sidesteps whether nazisploitation actually fetishizes fascism by letting its defenders talk themselves in circles — which might be the point.
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