Film
Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
2013Directed by Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
About Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
- Documentary
Synopsis
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.
- Directors
- Andreas Strohfeldt
- Jochen Hick
- Writers
- Jochen Hick
- Andreas Strohfeldt
- Original title
- Out in Ost-Berlin: Lesben und Schwule in der DDR
