Rosa von Praunheim – MRQE

Horror Vacui

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Satanische Sau

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the Good Lord, lovers and Rosas horrified mother.

Vor Transsexuellen wird gewarnt (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Transgendered members of a political action group band together to fight for their human rights.

Darkroom – Tödliche Tropfen

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesnt know is that, while secretly checking out Berlins night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.

König des Comics

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most commercially successful German comic book creators, he is best known for books like SchwulComix (GayComix) that offer a twisted take on queer culture. Equal parts Tom of Finland and R. Crumb, Königs comics are sexually charged and often politically incorrect, portraying daily routines of gay life alongside serious subjects like AIDS. King of Comics is a touching portrait of a cutting-edge artist with a wicked sense of humor. All hail the king! Jimmy Radosta

Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Berlin are treated. The film is objective, and records the hustler scene as a social Submilieu, which is characterized by both tragic fates, as well as everyday things and routines. Not only the direct sale of sexual services is discussed, but also other aspects associated with male prostitution: poverty, drug addiction, AIDS, crime, migration, love and partnership.

New York Memories

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might find and also to check in on the colorful protagonists of his 1989 documentary, Überleben in New York. Both a personal journey and a historical survey, New York Memories captures a transformed city by charting the shifting course of gay life, from Warhol Factory figures to the AIDS ravaged, within it.

Rosas Höllenfahrt

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A German documentary studying concepts of hell developed over time in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, often overlapping -but not in Catholicism- with purgatory. Special attention goes to ‘physical’ methods of torture in the afterlife, as in Dante’s Inferno. Their inspiration stems partially from judicial torments, as used during the Inquisition to redeem ‘Satanic’ sinners, from witches and heretics to mere gay people. Also treated is hell’s theological and ‘educational’ meaning.

Tote Schwule – Lebende Lesben

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter losses and, according to Praunheim, lesbian women have now placed themselves at the head of the so-called queer movement. The female protagonists in the film represent two different generations; they also incorporate the past and present status of homosexuals in society.

Dein Herz in meinem Hirn

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A retelling of the events that led to the death of Bernd Juergen Brandes. Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes’ Internet ad in 2001, where Meiwes indicated that he was looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten.