Rising star Franz Rogowski plays a gay German arrested for 'deviant practices' in the decades following World War I in Sebastian Meise's intense film.
Sebastian Meise’s intense prison drama, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar this year, looks at the mostly- forgotten history of Germany’s anti-homosexual laws, laws dating back to 1871 which led to mass persecution and murder of homosexuals under the Nazi regime, but which remained on the books in West Germany after World War II up until the late 1960s.
Rogowski plays Hans, convicted under the notorious anti-gay law Paragraph 175, who, after World War II, is transferred from a concentration camp to serve out the rest of his sentence in a West German prison. Georg Friedrich co-stars as Viktor, an older, homophobic inmate, who initially violently rejects being bunked up with Hans.
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