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‘ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE NAZIS’: THE FILM ABOUT GERMANY’S POSTWAR PERSECUTN OF GAY MEN
Though safe for the moment thanks to Jean’s quick-thkg plan to pass her off as a Gallic employee of his fay’s lndry bs, Sara watch horror as her homosexual protector is forced to a Nazi labor mp as a tragic rult of a bad cisn ma by Jean’s troublome brother Jacqu (Nilas Gob). This is a betifully tragic queer war film, showg the harsh reali of France durg the German occupatn as affects to both Jews and Homosexuals. There are some great exampl of that terrifyg time, and even how they found the abily to enjoy themselv; the scene Groff’s is rather enjoyable – until the tth that homosexuals are now beg targeted sks .
Except his name was already down for beg gay and all go out of ntrol to tragic.
Everyone is on edge, but for a Jew or for a homosexual – ’s adly. In 1930s Berl, homosexual Max (Clive Owen) sleeps wh German officer Wolf (Nikolaj Coster-Wald), only to see him killed by his fellow Nazis the next morng. He’s then sent to Dach ncentratn mp and meets Horst (Lothaire Blute), a proud gay man also bound for the mp.