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Horror Vacui (1984)
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Horror · 1h 25m
Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin. One is studying art and the other medicine. Their happy life is disrupted when Frankie attends a lecture and quickly becomes involved in a sinister cult operating as a self-help group called “Optimal Optimism”. Madame C, a former Nazi party member, is the leader of Optimal Optimism. When the cult members discovers that Frankie is gay, he is repeatedly raped by both men and women of the group. Hannes must find a way to rescue him.
Cast
Friedrich Steinhauer
Ingrid van Bergen
Tom Vogt
Crew
- Director
- Rosa von Praunheim
- Writer
- Rosa von Praunheim, Cecil Brown, Marianne Enzensberger
- Director of Photography
- Elfi Mikesch
- Original Music Composer
- Marran Gosov
Details
- Release date
- 1984-09-27
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Horror
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion, WDR