"SALO, or THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM" "Masters" "Storytellers" "Male victims" "Female victims" "Daughters" "Militia" "Collaborators" "Servants" "Written and directed by" "Northern Italy, during the Nazi-Fascist occupation" "ANTE INFERNO" "Your Excellency" "President" "Your Grace" "AII things are good when taken to excess" "Come on, let's go" "Where are you going?" "Claudio!" "Your scarf, my son!" "Sorry, we're obeying orders" "Marrying each others' daughters will seal our destinies for ever" "President, take as your lawful spouse His excellency's daughter, Tatiana" "President, I will marry your daughter, Susy" "Your Excellency and my brother the Bishop will marry my daughters" "The preparations for our undertaking are completed" "In puberty's ambush, maidens bloom, all unaware of impending doom" "They listen to the radio, drink tea, unaware they will lose their liberty" "Bourgeois recoil not from slaughter though victim be son and daughter" " What's this one's name?" " Claudio Cicchetti" " What is your name?" " Franco" "I knew you'd consider him" "A girl helped us catch him" "The fool thought he was in for romance, and ended up in a sack" " What is your name?" " Sergio" "Shouldn't we inspect them?" "Trousers down, shirts up" "That will do" "Lamberto Gobbi" "Carlo Porro" "Umberto Chessari... just look at him, gentlemen" "I waited two whole weeks to ambush him" "...and this is Ferruccio Tonna, from Castelfranco" "From a subversive family" "The one with the curly hair, Tonino Orlando" "I know him" "I've waited two long years for him" "Your Excellency, please help me" "His father was a senior judge, Iike myself" "A southerner, aren't you?" "Don't expect me to deflower you." "In time we will decide.." "...who will do you that delightful honour" "That's right, Tonino" "Eva, come along" "Try to behave yourself" "Come, no one will harm you" "Show these nice gentlemen all your hidden charms" "What a beauty" "A delicious bum, solid yet bouncy" "Tits to revive a dying cripple" "Bring us another one" "Signora Castelli, your turn." "The gentlemen are waiting" "Please let me go home" "Albertina's father is a professor in Bologna" "To slip her out of the convent school we had to convince two nuns" "You'II prefer us to the sisters, won't you?" "I don't know yet, sir" "Very well, undress her" "Just a moment" "We didn't notice her blemish." "She's a pretty virgin, too" "Don't you disgrace me, I know your little tricks" "We waited until she came out with her mother pushed the mother into the river, where the damned fool drowned right before this angel's eyes" "There were nine boys, now only eight" "Anyone know the difference between "8", "no-no", and the family?" "What's the difference?" ""8" is twice four, "no- no" is twice not for" " What about the family?" " They're fine, thank you" "Everything is prepared according to your wishes" "You herded, feeble creatures, destined for our pleasure" "Don't expect to find here the freedom granted in the outside world" "You are beyond reach of any "legality"" "No one knows you are here" "As far as the world goes, you are already dead" "These are the laws which will govern your lives" ""At six p.m., the company will assemble in the "Hall of Orgies"..." ""... where our Storytellers..." ""...will tell us stories, each with a particular theme" ""Our friends have the right to interrupt at any moment" ""The purpose of the stories is to inflame lust; all will be permitted" ""After dinner, the gentlemen will conduct the so-called orgies" ""The Great Hall will be adequately heated" ""Participants, appropriatedly dressed..." ""...will lie on the floor like animals..." ""...they will intermingle..." ""...copulate indescriminately, incestuously and sodomistically" ""That will be the daily procedure"" "No servants here!" ""Any man caught in flagrante delicto with a woman..." ""...will be punished by the loss of a limb" ""The slightest religious act by anyone will be punished..." ""...by death"" "CIRCLE OF MANIAS" "I was born at a girls' boarding school, where my mother was a servant" "One day, my sister asked if I knew Professor GentiIe" ""Well, look outside, he's waiting for you..." ""...to show you something he's shown me"" "She said: "Don't run away" ""He'II give you some money"" "I ran out to meet him." "I couldn't believe it" " "Where are you going?" - "To put away the chairs, Professor"" ""Your sister will do that." "I'll show you something you've never seen"" "I followed him into a room" "He took his huge penis from out of his trousers and began to masturbate" ""Have you ever seen the like?" ""I've shown your sister and girls of your age" ""Give me a hand." "Provoke the semen from which we're all created" ""I'II make it spurt on your face" ""This is my sole passion, my child..." ""...and you are about to see it"" "At that very moment I was immersed in a white jet, drenching me from head to toe" "You mustn't omit any detail otherwise your stories will not arouse us sufficiently" "I know I was urged to give every detail every particular, even the slightest that may illuminate the human passion" "I've not overlooked anything" "You haven't given us details about the size of the Professor's penis or the nature, the consistency of his emisssion" "Did you fondle his genitals, did he oblige you to do so?" "Dear Signora Vaccari, more clarity" "From now on I shall conceal nothing." "May I continue?" "Time the staff of my old age had some fun" "Shortly after my seventh birthday I took a girl friend to see the Professor" "One of his colleagues was with him." "They drew me inside" "Looking at me, one said to the other:" ""Goffredo, didn't I tell you she was a little beauty?"" ""She is a rare little jewel", replied Goffredo" "Then he took me onto his lap and gave me a kiss" " "How old are you?" - "Seven, Professor"" ""You are fifty years younger than me"" "Then he gave me another kiss" "Meanwhile, the other prepared some kind of strange syrup" "They made me drink it, saying:" ""It will make you pee"" ""AII we want of you, dear child, is that you urinate" ""And that you do that with me, alone together"" "I want this miserable boy punished severely" "We are at your service" "He had the insolence to pull away from me" "You can choose one of ours" "No, thank you" "It would take too much to satisfy me now" "A moment ago, only the slightest effort would suffice, but now..." "You know to what we're driven by frustrated desire" "AII I ask of you is exemplary punishment for this bastard" "My Lord, I feel ready to satisfy you" "I need no instruction" "No, Iet me be" "There are a thousand occasions when one does not desire a woman's anus" "I'II wait." "Let Signora Vaccari continue her story" "Everything was so arranged that he swallowed every drop of my piss" "At that moment his penis, overcome by victory cried tears of blood over me" "Then, passion consumed, the Professor seemed to realize his idol no Ionger inspired such religious fervour" "Without ado, he put ten lire in my apron pocket and pushed me out" "The boy's hopeless at masturbation, he needs a lesson" "You'd think he'd never seen a man's tool" "Well, friends Signora Vaccari will turn them into first-class whores" "Nothing is more contagious than evil" "You are mistaken, Your Excellency" "Some can do evil only when passion drives them to it" "They are always unhappy, regretting the evils of the previous night" "Umberto, Franco... what do you say?" "Handsome" "Efisio, it's my turn" "On the Perati bridge" "A black flag flies" "The mourning of the Julian regiment that goes to war" "The best young men lie under the earth" "The gentleman are not satisfied with you" "The first thing you must learn is how to hold it" "Go on" "Up and down" "Squeeze it harder and stroke beneath with the other hand" "Slut!" "See how it's done" "There were nine girls, now only eight" "Here's a number eight story" "It's about a man who had a friend named Six-times-eight" "Going home in the blackout one night they lost each other" "Our man tried to find his friend, looking everywhere" "At last he thought he saw something in the darkness" "He was overjoyed, thinking he had found his friend" " He cried: "Six-times-eight!" - "Forty-eight", came the reply" "Music!" "Signora Vaccari will tell us another story to stimulate us for another skirmish" "I was nine when my sister took me to milan to meet Signora CaIzetti" "She examined me and asked if I wanted to work for her" "I said I would, if the pay was good" "My first client, a stout man named Vaccari, looked me over carefully" "At once I showed him my pussy, which I thought was very special" "He covered his eyes:" ""Out of the question" ""I'm not interested in your vagina, cover it up"" "He covered me up, making me lie down" "He said: "AII these little whores know is to flaunt their vaginas" ""Now I'II have to recover from that disgusting sight"" "He wrapped me in a sheet, Iike a mummy leaving only my behind uncovered" "He caressed it gently, opened and closed the cheeks began to suck it greedlily" "Then he carefully put his member between my buttocks, his movements became frenzied" ""Such an adorable behind, the sweet little anus." "Now I'll anoint it"" "He said that three or four times" "I never saw him again" "Your first client had an idea of women that most of us do not share" "Homage to the rear temple is more fervent than the other" "I put this question to the company" "How can we determine the true inclination of a boy or girl?" "Their best part, in other words" "I believe by masturbation of the requisite body areas" "Let's take the youngsters about whom we have doubts and take them aside to verify" "Observing, with equal passion and apathy, Guido and Vaccari masturbating the two bodies which belong to us inspires a number of interesting reflections" "Would you care to elaborate, dear Duke?" "We Fascists are the only true anarchists" "Naturally once we've become masters of the state, true anarchy is that of power" "However, look at their obscene gestures like deaf-mute language with a code none of us can break, no matter how great our power" "There is nothing to be done" "We must restrict our impulses to a single gesture" "He came." "Now he is a man" "Little Sergio, we're proud of you" " She's a woman now" " Our first couple has been formed" "Sergio, you've proved you're a man" "She is your prize" "Come forward" "Appreciate the goodwill of these gentlemen who allow you to enjoy such a great privilege we will solemnize your marriage" "What a fine thing" "What a whore" "Get out, you sluts!" "Let us resume the ceremony" "Will you, Sergio take Renata for your wife?" "I pronounce you man and wife" "Clear off, all of you!" "If you salute him, then you are bound lf you are for him, if you are sound" "Then you must join up, honour bound" "Lustily!" "Aren't you newlyweds?" "Give rein to your feelings" "Get busy, idiot" "No!" "That flower is reserved for us" "The principle of all greatness on earth has long been bathed in blood" "My friends, if memory does not betray me:" ""Without bloodshed, there is no forgiveness" ""No forgiveness without bloodshed"." "Baudelaire" "Excellency, the expression is not to be found in Baudelaire but in Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals" "It is neither from Baudelaire nor Nietzsche nor in Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans" "It's Dada" "Sing me that sweet melody I loved so much, that goes da-da" "Delicious creature, do you want my dirty underpants?" "My old underpants." "What incomparable refinement" "You see how sensitive I am to the value of things" "Little angel, my greatest desire is to grant your wish" "You know I respect all tastes and whims" "However baroque, all deserve to be respected" "Because we're not their masters, even the most bizarre manias derive from a basic principle of refinement" "Yes, old buggers, it's a question of delicacy" "One day Madam sent me to another Iibertine" "He took me to a room with a splendid Chinese carpet" "After making me undress, he ordered me on all fours, like an animal" "Having stroked my head two or three times he said: "I want to see if you're as quick as my dogs"" "He threw two chestnuts across the room saying: "Good bitch, fetch!"" "I thought it best to go along with the game" "You have two beautiful eyes..." "then look" "Piss" ""Filthy muck, putrid bitch", he shouted, approaching me" "Then he ejaculated over my back" "Then he left" "I dressed and discovered 25,000 lire in my coat" "Eat!" "Your Excellency, are you convinced?" "It is when I see others degraded that I rejoice knowing it is better to be me than the scum of "the people"" "Whenever men are equal, without that difference, happiness cannot exist" "So you wouldn't aid the humble, the unhappy" "In all the world no voluptuousness flatters the senses more than social privilege" "My next story is about the mania of Minister MissiroIi" "I went to the Minister's office at ten one morning" "The moment I entered, the doors closed" ""What are you doing here, you little bitch?" ""Who gave you permission to disturb me?"" "I hadn't been warned of what would happen so I was frightened by the welcome" "I can't take any more" "He tore off my clothes, shredded them and threw them into the fire" "Then he stretched out seemingly semi-conscious in a chair and ejaculated making his sperm fall upon the charred remains of my clothes" "CIRCLE OF SHIT" "Don't you think, Signora Maggi that before your stories, you should show us your best part?" "With the greatest of pleasure" "These buttocks merit our attention" "I have seldom seen better" "Very kind of you to say so" "We thank you." "Please begin" "I see that you gentlemen esteem the rear end so I shall devote my stories to this subject" "My story will interest you all especially our dear President;" "it concerns a particular mania his dearest caprice, which enabled me to make his acquaintance" "conceal my turpitudes from these innocents" "Enough." "I am eager to hear Signora Maggi's voice" "My childhood years were spent in endowing my body with the capacity to satisfy the basest, most outrageous desires" "I soon became expert in that difficult task and my fame spread throughout italy" "My clients included many celebrities and to them I gave the best of myself" "My first story concerns a most curious episode in my Iife" "Signora Evola, the Madam I worked for sent me to a client after feeding me a large laxative-spiced meal" "The client was an old Carabinieri General" "He made me undress him and put a nappy on him" "I was used to such fixations, I was ready to help him" "Suddenly, my bowels rebelled and he ordered me to relieve myself which I did without embarrassment" "He made me dip my fingers in the excrement and feed it to him like a baby" "He swallowed everything, imitating the cries of a baby and ejaculated into his nappy" "I knew a man capable of quite diverse refinements of the sort" "We expect only the best tales of you" "My next story took place in Verona" "I was told that the client waiting at a hotel was an old nobleman, notorious for his depravity" "My curiosity was immense" "That evening my mother was more intolerant than usual" "She pleaded with me not to go" "I couldn't resist the temptation, so I killed her" "The only thing to do" "The excitement awaiting you was supreme meriting the utmost sacrifice" "It's folly to say one owes anything to one's mother" "Must we be grateful for her having pleasure with a man?" "That should have been enough reward for her" "Long ago, I was cursed with a mother who aroused the same feelings you felt for yours" "As soon as I couId, I sent her to the next world" "It was a profound pleasure when she closed her eyes for the Iast time" "Why is that child crying?" "Your words remind her of her mother" "Her mother died trying to protect her" "Splendid!" "It's your mother you're crying for?" "Come here, Iet me console you" "Come back to Papa's arms" "He'll sing you another lullaby" "What an opportunity you offer me" "Signora Maggi's story merits immediate re-enactment" "I beg you to have mercy on my suffering" "My mother died for me and I'II never see her again" "Undress her immediately" "Kill me!" "God will take pity on me!" "Don't dishonour me!" "This howling is the most exciting thing I've ever heard" "Kill me!" "Free me from this torment, seeing and hearing such horrors!" "You all heard her call on God" "Your Excellency, enter her name in the Penal Register for a terrible punishment" "Do away with me, so that I can be with my mother" "You will be punished and deflowered when we decide the time is ripe" "Don't think your tears restrain my desire; they make me more ruthless" "Come here, my child, it's ready" "On your knees!" "Go on!" "Eat it" "That stupid girl's making a scene over such a delicacy" "A friend insisted that all the excrement he ate every day..." "I found an old woman of seventy for him" "Spoiled food can provoke excellent diarrhoea" "The subject should eat hastily, at odd hours, to overload the stomach" "We must try that at once" "Dear President" "I am eager to know how you first met Signora Maggi" "She will tell you after His Honour has married his Sergio" "Then you'II laugh at my expense" "I won't deprive you of that pleasure" "Today's story demands a revision of our rules" "If we wish to enjoy the fruit of our stay within these walls let us revise some of our rules" "For example, we put containers in the latrines to collect all excrement so that nothing goes to waste" "Let's follow Signora Maggi's example, giving our dear President the joy of seeing his dream come true" "Good day, Signora Castelli" "I'm sorry, we'II be ready in a moment" "I've come to make sure" "The chamber pots, quick!" "You know the rules!" "Tell me your name!" "I couldn't help it, with the muck we're given to eat" "Your name?" "It's Doris, the most undisciplined of our girls" "She will be company for those already listed here" " Whose is this?" " Mine." "Help yourself" "Is that how you obey our rules, impertinent brat?" "Show me this boy's arse" "You even dared to wipe yourself." "You'll get what you deserve" "We're ready but preparing this one meant that I couldn't watch these rogues" "There is no evasion" "Unless the German people fall we are prepared for any eventuality  to save a human soul, even in this part of Africa" "We are happy to carry out your every command" "Those I considered the most capable were fed appropriately" "Thus as this solemn wedding feast we shall enjoy the greatest delicacy" "Our girls abstained from relieving themselves all day in compliance with your decree that we produce this for you" "Let the rite begin" "Our guide restored the divine character of monstrosity thanks to reiterated actions, that is to say: rites" "No more intoxicating desire exists endowing you with the vigour to meet the challenge awaiting you" "Eat, my exquisite bride" "You must prepare for our night of love" "Nothing's worse than a breath without odour" "I can't do it" "Offer it to the Madonna" "Do this" "Say: "I can't eat rice with my fingers like this"" "Then eat shit" "I refer, as you will have guessed to our illustrious President" "After having satisfied him I was impressed by such special tastes in one so young" "Tastes that will become clearer later" "Liberated from my mother I found life rich in all its delights" "One day Madam presented me to the libertine in question" "His passion will strike you as somewhat unusual" "The scene took place in his house." "I was shown into a darkened room" "I saw a man lying on the bed and a coffin in the middle of the room" ""You see before you...", he said..." ""...a man on his deathbed..." ""...but he doesn't want to close his eyes..." ""...without making a last homage to the object of his adoration" ""I adore the behind" ""Although I am dying, I wish to die kissing one" ""When life has left my body..." ""...place me in the coffin..." ""...wrap me in my shroud and close the coffin lid" ""I insist that you observe my orders to the letter" ""In this supreme moment with the sole object of my lewd desire" ""Come quickly!"" "He went on, his voice broken, sobbing" ""Hurry!" "I am at death's door"" "So I went to him and showed him my backside" ""Oh, what a marvellous arse" ""Having seen this, my Iife can end." "I've never seen one as alluring"" "He fondled it, opened it" "He played with it, kissed it, just as would the healthiest of men" "He made me relieve myself of all that was in my bowels" "I was not at all embarrassed" ""Now it is the time for me to die." "The supreme moment has come"" "As he said that, he gave a profound sigh" "Piss over me" "I can't, it won't come" "I've finished" "The limitation of love is that you need an accomplice" "Your friend will know the libertine's refinement is being executioner and victim" "My sister knew an official in the controller's office" "A little pig-Iike man, with a disgusting face" "A chamber pot was arranged for two to sit on, back to back, and relieve themselves simultaneously" "He stirred it with his fingers, and swallowed it" "My sister told me he'd only to see her dirty arse and he ejaculated" "Did your sister have a pretty backside?" "You must judge by this." "A famous painter was commissioned to paint a Venus with a splendid backside" "He selected her as his model after many weeks looking at hundreds of behinds throughout italy" "How old was she then?" "Fifteen, Duke" "Why don't you arrange a competition to find the nicest bottom here?" "I'II do that." "I'm an expert" "Your Excellency, doesn't this situation suggest anything to you?" "It might" " Aren't you ready?" " Just a moment" "The act of the sodomite signifies the death of the human species" "Ambiguously accepting social standards while transgressing them" "More monstrous than the act of the sodomite is the act of the executioner" "True, but the act of the sodomite can be repeated again and again" "I think there is a way to repeat the act of the executioner" "Turn off the lights" "Here is my masterpiece" "I have a proposal to make" "We have not yet decided on the winner's prize for the best bottom" "Here is my proposal" "He or she whose bottom is judged the best will be killed immediately" "Agreed" "This way we'II be impartial, not knowing whose bottom we are viewing" " A shrewd observation" " Thank you, Your Excellency" "For if we knew we were looking at a boy rather than a girl we might be influenced in making our decision" "We must be completely free in our choice" "A clever trap I wish to avoid" "When one prefers men, it is difficult to change one's perspective" "The difference between a boy and a girl is enormous" "One cannot consider what is obviously inferior" "But if we consider all the stories we have heard in certain cases a girl might be preferable to a boy" "Let us try to remain objective" "Look at the elasticity of those buttocks" "There can be no question here" "Allow me, Duke" "I don't wish to contradict, but may I re- examine a most impressive one?" "We'II be delighted to grant your request" "I don't think the heaviness of these buttocks can be compared to the most beautiful we have here" "However, I will yield to the opinion of the majority" "I vote for the Duke's candidate" "My vote goes to the Duke's candidate" "Dear President, three votes to one" "I bow to the majority" "But I request that my candidate be reserved for me to deflower" "Granted" "We'II reveal this mystery" "Fire!" "You must be stupid to think that death would be so easy" "Don't you know we intend to kill you a thousand times?" "To the end of eternity, if eternity can have an end" "Once I had a very mysterious client" "His mania was closely related to the subject of Signora Castelli's stories, for which I apologize" "The man wanted only women who had been condemned to death" "The closer they were to death, the more he would pay" "He would visit them when the sentence had been pronounced" "Thanks to his exalted social status, enabling him to pay the price not a single one escaped him" "He did not possess them casually" "He insisted on inspecting their rumps and that they defecated before him" "He was convinced that the tastiest faeces were those of women who had just heard the sentence of death" "CIRCLE OF BLOOD" "Your Reverence, I am ready" "We want a marvellous wedding" "The President wishes to be first, he is the most randy" "You whoresons!" "What is this, a mortuary?" "These parasites do nothing for this festive day" "Do anything you Iike." "Laugh, all of you" "Go on, idiots, show how happy you are" "Go on, laugh" "Why aren't you yelling for joy?" "Go on, sing!" "You two, what are you doing?" "Excellency, note their names" "If you Iike to whimper, we'II make you, for your last few days" "Shouldn't you have paid your bills, Monsieur Royale?" "Of course, Monsieur Juju" "Shouldn't you also pay mine?" "Why so?" "Because two and two make four and I'm broke" "Earn some money" " How do I do that?" " Through manual labour" "I don't know how" "Then become an actor" "That's difficult" "Try to write then;" "all you have to write is any old thing" "Are you crazy?" "I have a duty to perform;" "I'II return later" "Your friend here is ready whenever you are" " Please, may I speak to you?" " Of course, my dear" "What will you do to me?" "Talk about that tomorrow;" "many things will be decided then" "I know a secret." "Someone is violating your law" "Graziella had a photograph under her pillow" "Give me that photograph" "Spare me and I'II tell you what Eva and Antoniska do" "They're breaking your laws" "Don't kill me." "I have secrets to tell you" "Speak, dirty whore!" "Every night Ezio goes to the black servant girl" "I can take you there" "Queers!" "You make me puke" "Those who are named will wear a sky blue ribbon" "You can imagine what that means" "Others, if they collaborate, are reprieved." "They will return to Salò" "What are you going to do to us?" "You'II soon know the gravity of your crimes" "The main character figured in a number of the previous stories" "He is forty, very powerfully built with a member like a stallion" "He is enormously rich, very powerful, very cruel" "A heart of stone" "He owns a house near Milan, which he uses exclusively for his pleasure" "At his parties, at Ieast fifteen young girls are present aged from fifteen to seventeen" "Those who are chosen must present themselves completely naked" "He touches them, caresses them, examines them then makes them defecate into his mouth, but he does not swallow it" "After these first rituals, with fearsome gravity he brands each girl on the shoulder burning a number into their tender flesh" "After these preliminaries, he opens the window and places a girl standing in the middle of the room, facing the window" "Then gives such a powerful kick to her behind that the poor thing flies across the room through the window and vanishes into a dark cellar" "Our hero is familiar not only with Nietzsche, but Huysmans as well" "In the cellar, a masked executioner with the devil's emblems presides gravely over the horrible machines" "When all the girls are in the cellar, our hero is highly aroused, having so many contacts without once ejaculating" "Naked, his huge member jutting from his belly" "Now all the machines have begun to function all tortures at once, with terrifyingly loud screeching" "The first apparatus is a huge wheel with razor blades to which is bound a girl to be flayed alive" "Another has a live rat sewed inside her vagina" "Oh Lord, why hast thou foresaken us?" "A rational person is not content to kill the same person" "He would recommend murdering as many as possible" "Umberto, come here" "Bravo, always ready" "What does a Bolshevik do when he dives into the Red Sea?" "You don't know what a Bolshevik does?" "No, tell me" "He goes splash!" "Poetry Corner." "Ezra Pound." "The Cantos" "Canto 99" "The whole tribe is from one man's body" "What other way can you think of it?" "The surname and the nine arts" "The father's word is compassion" "The son's, devotion" "Small birds sing in chorus." "Harmony is in the proportion of branches" "The gay face of spring is set before the world" "The sharpness of winter now flees defeated" "In various apparel Flora reigns" "And in the euphony of the woods she is hymned in song" "Can you dance?" "Let's try" " What's your girlfriend's name?" " Margherita"