Contents:
- GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY PRISON DRAMA SET POSTWAR GERMANY
- THIS POST-WAR PRISON DRAMA ISN’T A “GAY MOVIE”, IT’S A LOVE STORY
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY PRISON DRAMA SET POSTWAR GERMANY
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THIS POST-WAR PRISON DRAMA ISN’T A “GAY MOVIE”, IT’S A LOVE STORY
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GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
And Franz Rogowski’s remarkable, ntaed performance as Hans Hoffman, a gay man who spends much of his life prison, persecuted for his sexualy acrdance wh paragraph 175 of the German penal ceas to have the same meang behd bars, but thanks to a strikg physil transformatn, Rogowski guis through a nonlear storyle spanng 1945 – Hans is released om a ncentratn mp only to be imprisoned immediately for the crime of his homosexualy – to 1969 and the repeal of paragraph 175. This Post-war Prison Drama Isn’t a “Gay Movie”, It’s a Love Story | AnOtherGreat Freedom, 2022(Film still)Great Freedom is “about longg for someone, about a society that don’t allow this to be, and the nsequenc that one has to take, ” says lead actor Franz RogowskiMarch 11, 2022.
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