Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri.
Contents:
- NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
- GAY GERMAN MOVI
- ‘ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE NAZIS’: THE FILM ABOUT GERMANY’S POSTWAR PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN
NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
Open, diverse and party-iendly; disver the gay and lbian films that have helped shape Berl as the LGBTQ pal of Europe. * german lgbt film *
The early gay activist and filmmaker Rosa von Prnheim put a nutshell: It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv. Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment.
As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway. At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy.
GAY GERMAN MOVI
We´ve studied German school for some years and have ntued to learn the language at home. So we have a kd of nnectn and appreciatn for , which have ma really love German movi. We wanted to give you a list of our favoure gay themed German movi. "Free Fall", German lled… * german lgbt film *
Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany. The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy.
‘ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE NAZIS’: THE FILM ABOUT GERMANY’S POSTWAR PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN
The law ed by the Third Reich to opprs gay men ntued long after s downfall. Director Sebastian Meise on Great Freedom, his searg film about a man rcerated almost all his life * german lgbt film *
He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936. Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175).
We wanted to give you a list of our favoure gay themed German movi.