Rosa von Praunheim — Director (18)
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Rent Boys (2011) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB
Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Sergiu Grimalschi / Peter Kern …
other title: Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo
Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Berlin are treated. The film is objective, and records the hustler scene as a social Submilieu, which is characterized by both tragic fates, as well as everyday things and routines. Not only the direct sale of sexual services is discussed, but also other aspects associated with male prostitution: poverty, drug addiction, AIDS, crime, migration, love and partnership.
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A Virus Knows No Morals (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ein Virus kennt keine Moral
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Dieter Dicken / Maria Hasenäcker …
other title: Ein Virus kennt keine Moral
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits. An epidemic victim is harassed by a reporter on his death bed - he sticks her with a contaminated syringe. The government opens a quarantine called Hell Gay Land. Gay terrorists kidnap the Minister of Health...
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB
Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Ewald Althans / Winfried Bonengel …
other title: Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis. Rosa von Praunheim stated of the subjects featured in the documentary, “Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction.”
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It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Berryt Bohlen / Bernd Feuerhelm …
other title: Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt / Ce n'est pas l'homosexuel qui est pervers, mais la situation dans laquelle il vit …
Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. His adventures begin on the streets of Berlin, where the shy brunette Daniel meets the blonde Clemens, who invites him home for coffee and offers him a place to stay. Soon Daniel is living with Clemens and believes he has found the love of his life. The two try to imitate a bourgeois marriage and its lifestyle. But after four months of tedium, Daniel is cruised by a rich older man who entices him to move into his villa, where he encounters a group of older gays, pretentious in their appreciations of fine art and classical music, who fawn over him.
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I Am My Own Woman (1992) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ich bin meine eigene Frau
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf / Ichgola Androgyn …
other title: Ich bin meine eigene Frau / La Femme dans ma tête …
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der Einstein des Sex
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Friedel von Wangenheim / Kai Schumann …
other title: L'Einstein del sesso - ovvero la storia del Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld / O Einstein do Sexo …
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
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Anita – Dances of Vice (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Anita - Tänze des Lasters
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Lotti Huber / Ina Blum …
other title: Anita - Tänze des Lasters / Anita - Las danzas del vicio …
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates.
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Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Grace Jones / John Rechy …
other title: Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen / Armee der Liebenden oder Aufstand der Perversen …
Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.
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Silence = Death (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Silence = Death
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Bern Boyle / Emilio Cubeiro …
other title: Die Aids-Trilogie: Schweigen = Tod - Künstler in New York kämpfen gegen AIDS / Schweigen = Tod
1990 film by Rosa von Praunheim
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City of Lost Souls (1983) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Stadt der verlorenen Seelen
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Angie Stardust / Jayne County …
other title: Stadt der verlorenen Seelen
A fictionalized account about the lurid lives of a group of eccentric cabaret artists who have come from America to Berlin looking for social acceptance and a place to give full reign to their creative nature.
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I’m an Antistar (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ich bin ein Antistar – Das skandalöse Leben der Evelyn Künneke
director: Rosa von Praunheim
other title: Ich bin ein Antistar – Das skandalöse Leben der Evelyn Künneke
A film portrait that shows the ups and downs in the life and career of pop star Evelyn Künneke. Künneke mostly acts herself in front of the camera, but also gets to talk to friends and companions like the travesty artist Cristina from Amsterdam.
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dolly, Lotte und Maria
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Dolly Haas / Lotte Goslar …
other title: Dolly, Lotte und Maria
A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: film star Dolly Haas, dancer Lotte Goslar and artist Maria Ley, Erwin Piscator's widow.
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Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians (2008) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Tote Schwule – Lebende Lesben
director: Rosa von Praunheim actor: Maren Kroymann
other title: Tote Schwule – Lebende Lesben
As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter losses and, according to Praunheim, lesbian women have now placed themselves at the head of the so-called queer movement. The female protagonists in the film represent two different generations; they also incorporate the past and present status of homosexuals in society.