Rosa von Praunheim

The plot is set in Northern German city Kiel where the strange couple meets for the first time: He (Ditmar) grew up in poor environment in orphanages and later on in the red light districts of Frankfurt where he got to know sleazy girls and tough guys. In order to escape this environment he moved to Kiel and instantly moves in with Luzy, who shows him around the town and helps him to reintegrate into society...

Gay-interest film directed by Rosa von Praunheim.

In this documentary, the career and courage of the formerly well-known music-hall actor/dancer Evelyn Kueneke is celebrated. The film also explores the efforts by director Rosa von Praunheim and his coterie of gay friends in New York and Berlin to revive her career. In the film, the game old trouper proves that she still has what it takes to entertain (All Movie Guide)

Film directed by Rosa von Praunheim, presumably about dead gay men and live lesbians.

A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics and misfits as he travels, before reaching some sort of peace in Hawaii. (imdb)

Rosa Von Praunheim satirizes cults of any kind in this black-humored story about a gay couple in Berlin, one studying art and the other medicine, happily living together until one of them is hypnotized by a deranged female cult leader and convinced to join her "Optimal Optimism" religion. (allmovie.com)

n modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days. (imdb)

Documentary about Helene Schwarz and the German film and television school in Berlin.

Despised, stigmatised and suppressed to the fringe of society -- this is the reality young, male prostitutes face in Berlin. Most of the hustlers are immigrants, a lot of them act out of necessity. Rosa von Praunheim acompanies the young adults at their work in bars, porn movie theatres and on the street. He shows their reasons, their stories and above all, their strong will to survive.

Provocative documentary from von Praunheim on AIDS epidemic in New York. (KG)

A German documentary by Rosa von Praunheim that looks at gay men with hard-core right wing views, Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis gives the impression of being documentary dynamite. 'Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction'. (sneersnipe.co.uk)

This sweet little cannibal comedy stars the legendary porno star Jeff Stryker in his first legitimate role. Jeff plays a stranger from the Midwest who arrives in Hollywood, rents a motel room, and becomes the major fantasy of the owner, his mother and all the other guests. Young and old, male and female, black and white: everybody finds him delectable. In the end, they invite him for a Christmas dinner..... (KG)

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years. (imdb)

Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits. An epidemic victim is harassed by a reporter on his death bed - he sticks her with a contaminated syringe. The government opens a quarantine called Hell Gay Land. Gay terrorists kidnap the Minister of Health. (New York Times)

Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves with his lover Roland to Berlin. They renovate an apartment with the intention of finally living together. Their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn't know: while secretly checking out Berlin's night life, Lars is experimenting with a deadly poison. (imdb)

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep