Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

10/31/2013

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1hr 34min

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Documentary

STORY

Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Peter Bausdorf
  • Bettina Dziggel
  • Michael Eggert
  • Andreas Fux
  • Marinka Körzendörfer

    Directors

  • Andreas Strohfeldt
  • Jochen Hick

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Galeria Alaska Productions

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

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