Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

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Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (2013)

Directed by Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick

Documentary · 1h 34m

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.

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Cast

P
Peter Bausdorf
B
Bettina Dziggel
M
Michael Eggert
A
Andreas Fux
M
Marinka Körzendörfer
J
Jürgen Litfin
M
Marina Krug
K
Klaus Laabs
G
Gerhard Plöse
C
Christian Pulz
M
Michael Raimann
P
Peter Rausch

Crew

Director
Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick
Writer
Jochen Hick, Andreas Strohfeldt
Director of Photography
Thomas Zahn, Jochen Hick
Editor
Thomas Keller
Producer
Jochen Hick

Details

Original title
Out in Ost-Berlin: Lesben und Schwule in der DDR
Release date
2013-10-31
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany
Production
Galeria Alaska Productions