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- After a chance phone call leads to daily conversations, a widowed restaurant owner and a lonely film actor plan to finally meet in person.
- This documentary feature addresses the question of how gay men lived and could live their lives under 'real socialism', where GDR ideology considered homosexuality to be a remnant of bourgeois decadent morality and harmful to a socialist society. In that film we meet six men who talk openly about their social and intimate experiences, some for the first time, and get to know several individuals who could hardly be more diverse, or more contradictory. At one end of the scale is Frank Schäfer, a barber and a shrewd and resourceful individualist; at the other, Eduard Stapel, an academic theologist who founded a GDR-wide network of homosexual associations and upon whom the Stasi firmly set its sights. Even though homosexuality had not been punished since the 1950s, the conspiracy of silence, the condemnation, the pressure to conform to society and to sexual discretion remained. This story introduces us to a number of strong and - for all their pain - spirited men who were obliged to come to terms with their homosexuality alone, each with their own very different strategies for survival and adjustment.
- Es ist dunkel, Schüsse fallen. Menschen fliehen und verstecken sich in der Kanalisation. Große, drachengleiche Vögel gleiten durch eine verwüstete Stadt. Inmitten des Chaos eines Krieges schafft es ein Mann mit Fliegermütze, sich auf ein Boot zu flüchten, um auf der Suche nach Frieden das Meer zu überqueren.
- He routinely jumps out of his aging VW transporter, hammers thick steel bolts into the earth, hauls a screen and film rolls the size of tractor tires, and adjusts his Ernemann projector from 1938. It has been since he was 15 years old when he first 'went to the cinema' to make him happen. Helmut Göldner from the small village of Sieglitz in Saxony-Anhalt is now 75 years old and is Central Germany's longest-serving mobile projectionist.
- Witnesses come together and tell the story of the 'Aktion T4' - a mass killing process initiated by the Nazis that took over 300.000 lives of the mentally disabled in the wake of the Holocaust.