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The film opens in the rain. There’s a tension in the air, but something beautiful about it, too. It’s a theme that permeates the modern gay drama Jonathan (, Germany) which premiered last Friday night at the Berlinale International Clip Festival.
Before I was able to receive a ticket to the premiere, there was already a buzz about the film. It’s lgbtq+, it’s Germany, it’s the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards—you’re bound to attract the attention of Berlin’s male lover community with that alone—but put baby-faced, blonde Jannis Niewöhner in the title role and the film’s a recipe for gay movie success.
But this isn’t your typical gay motion picture. There’s a friendly plot—one that’s at times surprising but also predictable. In fact, the manage character in the film isn’t even the gay nature. Ultimately, this is a film about the father-son association, but it’s the father that’s male lover. You know that throughout the film—hints here and there—but it’s not until the words are act
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[edgtf_dropcaps type=”normal” color=”#3f″ background_color=””]O[/edgtf_dropcaps]ur 5 Top Gay Films Homochrom Filmfest in the German cities Cologne and Dortmund. It’s October, the Oktoberfest in Munich is over, and the trees are turning all orange and red, while it’s getting cooler. It’s cinema time again, not only in Germany! We from Couple of Men had an inspiring talk with festival director Martin Wolkner about the program of the 8th Filmfest homochrom in Cologne and Dortmund in the western part of Germany. The LGBT film festival has quickly become the sec
The rise of New German Cinema coincided with the birth of gay liberation. Perhaps as a finding, the movement was far queerer than any precursor, apart from the ‘60s American avant-garde. The Quad’s June series “Queer Kino” commemorated this by displaying German films from the ‘70s and ‘80s. Its programmer, filmmaker Wieland Speck, says that “questioning our parents’ generation, the war generation, had a powerful impact on the developing gay movement, especially the first feminist cineastes.” While it’s inevitable that two R.W. Fassbinder films were included (Fox and His Friends and Querelle), as well as other well-known directors like Ulrike Ottinger and Monika Treut, the meat of the series relies on lesser-known serve that shone a not heavy on aspects of German life that have since disappeared.
Frank Ripploh’s Taxi zum Klo () was well-received upon its American let go in ‘81, but it’s rarely revived now. It was a victim of tragic bad timing: its celebration of the liberating potential of casual sex, including encounters in common restrooms, was instantly dated by the onset of AIDS
Germany's most controversial 'gay film director'
When Rosa von Praunheim recently received the Saarbrücken Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis for Lifetime Achievement, he mockingly described it as a kind of "death Oscar."
Having been recognized at Germany's preeminent festival for young filmmakers, the year-old director showed off the self-deprecating wit that has marked the year career of one of Germany's gay cinema pioneers.
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Widely recognized as Germany's best-known "gay film director," von Praunheim sees the moniker as a badge of honor: "I think that worldwide I am the one who has made the most films on gay subjects," he said, adding that his serve has covered the gamut of gay, lesbian and trans subjects. He's proud of the roughly films he's made, he says.
Von Praumheim was born Holger Radtke in in a prison in Riga, Latvia. His mother died shortly after the end of the war in a Berlin sanatorium. He was adopted, which he only discovered in , and he only learned of the fate of his biological mother at age She has been a subject in hi