Rosa von Praunheim – Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt AKA It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971)
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Praunheim’s film is at once a pedagogical caveat and political manifesto. Following naïve country boy Daniel after he moves to Berlin and encounters a thriving gay community, It Is Not The Homosexual is a provocative look at the lives of gay men in 1970s Germany. The film follows Daniel from heteronormative behaviour to finding a sugardaddy to a job in a local gay bar, making him the most eligible bachelor in town. Through Daniel’s journey Praunheim comments on everything from the shallower tendencies in gay culture to cruising for sex in the early ‘70s until Daniel meets a group of revolutionary gays who introduce him to the gay rights movement. Like many of Praunheim’s films It Is Not The Homosexual caused a scandal in both the liberal and conservative establishment as well as in homosexual circles after it was first shown on German state television in 1973. What makes Praunheim’s work so provocative as a queer director is his fearlessness, what others call audacity, to not only point the finger at society, but also at the gay community itself as guilty of homophobia.
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 4mn
Size: 3.48 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 1280x720
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 6 060 Kbps
BPP: 0.263
Audio
#1: German 2.0ch DTS @ 1 509 Kbps (DTS German)
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English