Out in East Berlin: Lesbians & Gays in the DDR
Original Title
Out in Ost-Berlin/Lesben und Schwule in der DDR- Director: Jochen Hick; Andreas Strohfeldt
- Writer: Jochen Hick; Andreas Strohfeldt
- Producer: Jochen Hick
CGiii Comment
In 1968, paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punish able by law was abolished in the German Democratic Republic. At first homosexuality was considered a negligible issue in 'real existing socialism'. The nuclear family constituted the center of social society. »Out in East Berlin« tells the various, impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians during socialistic GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Their experiences on the path to a self-conscious, outed sexual identity share one specific perspective: They are accompanied by the watchful eye of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi). Even their actions in the bed room were recorded in innumerable personal files. Based on the homosexual perspective, filmmakers Jochen Hick and Andreas Strohfeldt elucidate the political picture of the GDR, in which citizens are monitored, spied upon and whose movements are restrained. In addition, they are called upon to betray one's own cause: homosexual emancipation.
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Cast & Characters
Peter Bausdorf as Himself;
Bettina Dziggel as Herself;
Michael Eggert as Himself;
Marina Krug as Herself;
Marinka Korzendorfer as Herself;
Klaus Laabs as Himself;
Gerhard Plose as Himself;
Christian Pulz as Himself;
Michael Raimann as Himself;
Jean Denis Romer as Comment Archival