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During the early '90s when the VHS era was going strong, I'd often find myself poking through the "Foreign Film" section at The Video Bar looking for movies tha

Tinto Brass is having a career revival. The Italian director is mainly known in America for having his name on the infamous Caligula . You couldn't go into a vi

Tinto Brass is known mostly in America for being the Italian director of the infamous Caligula that starred Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Peter O'Toole. Wh

Since it opened its doors in 1905, the Metropol Hotel in Moscow has witnessed seismic events in Russia’s 20th-century history. In its early years it was a glittering playground for wealthy merchants, louche cavalry officers, and ladies of leisure and luxury. When the Bolsheviks seized power, Tsarist officers beat a retreat to the hotel to fight a last losing battle against the revolutionaries. Afterward, Lenin requisitioned it, renamed it the Second House of Soviets, and sent from it the teleg...

When the Nazis came calling in 1939, Kitty Schmidt wasn’t interested. She was the madam of “Salon Kitty,” a swank brothel in Berlin and one of the last sex-for-sale establishments legally allowed to operate in Germany.

In “The Madam and the Spymaster,” a trio of journalists probe the story of a German bordello that purportedly doubled as a listening post.

Nigel Jones tells the story of the brothel that doubled up as a espionage post in Nazi Berlin

Film actor whose hypnotic presence was central to a trio of films directed by Luchino Visconti in the late 1960s and early 70s

RICHARD KAY: That Helmut Bergers own life could match the sordid debauchery he brought so vividly to The Damned, the controversial 1969 film.

Kitty’s Salon is the only English-language book about the eponymous wartime Berlin brothel, which was rigged with microphones and surveillance equipment by the SS to capture the secrets of foreign ambassadors, political rivals and high-ranking government officials. Led by ‘the man with the iron heart’, Reinhard Heydrich, it is one of the last Nazi operations