Ewald Althans

  • Winfried Bonengel – Beruf Neonazi AKA Profession: Neo-Nazi (1993)

    1991-2000DocumentaryGermanyWinfried Bonengel

    Beruf Neonazi is a german documentary from 1993. It follows the daily work oft the young Neonazi Bela Ewald Althans. The movie foregoes comments and let the utterances of Althans alone. But through the sequence of self-exposure and the monoolgue his political opinion becomes clear. One scene shows Althans at the memorial place Auschwitz where he denies the Holocaust.

    The movie got under performance ban in some german cities. Some time later i was shown to people above 18 but with some clear words of the presenter and a discussion about it.

    In 1996 Althans was sentenced by german court to 3 years and 6 months because of isparagement of the state and sedition inclusive isparagement of the memory of the deceased and insult. The statements in movie became proofs for the action.Read More »

  • Rosa von Praunheim – Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis aka Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005)

    2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyPoliticsQueer Cinema(s)Rosa von Praunheim

    A German documentary by Rosa von Praunheim that looks at gay men with hard-core right wing views, Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis gives the impression of being documentary dynamite. ‘Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction’. (sneersnipe.co.uk)Read More »

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