Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
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- Runtime
- 94 mins
Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Cast
- Peter Bausdorf
- Bettina Dziggel
- Michael Eggert
- Andreas Fux
- Marinka Körzendörfer
- Jürgen Litfin
- Marina Krug
- Klaus Laabs
- Gerhard Plöse
- Christian Pulz
- Michael Raimann
- Peter Rausch
- Eduard Stapel
- Peter Tatchell
- Günter Litfin
- Wolfgang Beyer
- Lothar Dönitz
- Fred Frumberg
- Dieter Neuendorf
- Brigitte Schütze
- Bernd Stapel
Director
- Andreas Strohfeldt
- Jochen Hick
Producers
- Jochen Hick
