Daniel Wenger on “Different om the Rt,” a silent movie produced Weimar Germany that is nsired the first feature film about gay love.
Contents:
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- THE TRAGIC LSONS OF CEMA’S FIRST GAY LOVE STORY
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Prervatnists are workg to rtore Richard Oswald’s 1919 German film, “Different From the Others,” the earlit known full-length feature to showse gay characters. * silent gay love *
Homosexualy the Silent Cema. Banned 1920, only a agment surviv of Different om the Others (1919), an "Enlightenment Film" promotg tolerance of homosexualiy, wh a fe st head up by the great Conrad Veidt.
THE TRAGIC LSONS OF CEMA’S FIRST GAY LOVE STORY
* silent gay love *
Veidt plays Korner, a gay vlist. He has been llectg news clippgs on homosexual suicis triggered by Paragraph 175, a German law crimalizg homosexualy, & which the nazis ma good e of a uple s later. He ponrs the nam of great men history who were gay, & builds his own self-teem sufficiently to meet wh & beg a relatnship wh a very young man, Kurt (Frz Schulz), who is voted to classil mic & uld benef by a mentor.