Movies: Rosa von Praunheim

  • 1968
    Von Rosa von Praunheim

    Von Rosa von Praunheim (1968)

    Von Rosa von Praunheim

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    In the background, Rosa von Praunheim sings a love song in a foreign language. The sound engineer counts as the camera moves over Rosa’s black plastic jacket. Carla Aulaulu sings while a young girl (also Carla) collapses from exhaustion while climbin...

    Von Rosa von Praunheim
  • 1996
    Transexual Menace

    Transexual Menace (1996)

    Transexual Menace

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    Pioneering gay German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim explores America’s burgeoning trans rights movement—from early leaders like Virginia Prince to contemporary activist groups like the titular Transexual Menace—in this powerful, yet sensitive document...

    Transexual Menace
  • 1986
    September September

    September September (1986)

    September September

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    "[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be depopulated. Past the 'Viennese Café', the meeting place par excellence. From a moving train the view of idyllic landscapes...

    September September
  • 1968
    (A)lter (A)ction

    (A)lter (A)ction (1968)

    (A)lter (A)ction

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    (A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version)....

    (A)lter (A)ction
  • 1976
    Underground and Emigrants

    Underground and Emigrants (1976)

    Underground and Emigrants

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    In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (s...

    Underground and Emigrants
  • 1972
    Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk

    Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk (1972)

    Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk

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    Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
  • 1979
    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot (1979)

    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

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    A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure....

    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
  • 1972
    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus

    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus (1972)

    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus

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    Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst"....

    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
  • 1972
    Passions

    Passions (1972)

    Passions

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    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....

    Passions
  • 2005
    Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze

    Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze (2005)

    Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze

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    “This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My camera recorded his first public account of his five-year incarceration as a homosexual at Sachsenhausen conce...

    Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
  • 1977
    Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen

    Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen (1977)

    Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen

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    Short film by Rosa von Praunheim...

    Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
  • 2005
    Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga

    Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga (2005)

    Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga

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    Joe Luga was a singer and accompanied the German soldiers in women's clothing on the Russian front. Nothing happened to him. It was only in the 1950s and 1960s that he was sent to prison in West Germany because of his homosexuality....

    Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga