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out
in east berlin
a
documentary by
jochen hick & andreas strohfeldt
edited by thomas keller
Deutscher Kinostart ab
31. Oktober 2013
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zum deutschen Verleih déjà-vu Film
Official
Selection
63rd Berlin International Film Festival
Panorama Section
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to review in The Hollywood Reporter
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Link to Trailer English
In
1968, paragraph 175,
which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished
in the German Democratic Republic. At first homosexuality
was considered a negligible, somehow suspicious issue in ‘real
existing socialism. The nuclear family constituted the center of
social society.
“Out in East Berlin” tells the various, impressive-to-absurd
personal histories of gay men and lesbians during socialistic GDR
until the fall
of the Berlin Wall. Their experiences on the path to a self-conscious,
outed
sexual identity share one specific perspective: They are accompanied
by the watchful eye of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi), which
reached even
their actions in bedroom. Those were recorded in innumerable personal
files. Based on
the homosexual perspective, filmmakers Jochen Hick and Andreas Strohfeldt
elucidate
the political picture of the GDR,in which citizens are monitored,
spied upon and
whose movements are restrained. In addition,they are called upon
to betray one´s
own cause: homosexual emancipation. An exciting, fascinating and
vivid portrait
of society is created from impressive interviews,
situational scenes and historical material never shown before.
A film, that especially today possesses actuality and explosiveness.
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