Rosa von Praunheim Movies

Joe Luga was a singer and accompanied the German soldiers in women's clothing on the Russian front. Nothing happened to him. It was only in the...

A retelling of the events that led to the death of Bernd Juergen Brandes. Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes' Internet ad in 2001, where Meiwes...

No Eastern cliché fits the small village of Wrodow in the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern, about which Rosa von Praunheim filmed a documentary...

Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Directional debut by Germany's most famous queer filmmaker.

The AIDS epidemic in Berlin is presented in contrast with that in the United States, where horror gave way to anger and solidarity went far beyond...

Rosa von Praunheim interviews gay actor Kurt von Ruffin, Berlin-based promoter Harry Toste and activist Andreas Meyer-Hanno.

short film by Rosa von Praunheim.

Gay men love operas. Is that a stereotype? Markus Tiarks and Rosa von Praunheim try to find out.

Pioneering gay German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim explores America’s burgeoning trans rights movement—from early leaders like Virginia...

A fictionalized account about the lurid lives of a group of eccentric cabaret artists who have come from America to Berlin looking for social...

Rosa von Praunheim creates the portrait of a committed woman, a fighter against homophobia and AIDS. The film, which honors Laura Halding-Hoppenheit,...

In this sequel to Die Bettwurst, Dietmar and Luzi are a somewhat unorthodox couple, who live and fight with tremendous enthusiasm. The unusual nature...

Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majority society. But he doesn't spare his own community...

Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim searches for his biological mother after discovering late in life that he was adopted.

“This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My...

Feminist short film set in West Berlin.

A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: film star Dolly Haas, dancer Lotte Goslar and...

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.