2013
10.0 (3 votes)
1h 34m
Official Website
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Galeria Alaska Productions
Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (Out in Ost-Berlin: Lesben und Schwule in der DDR)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick
Writer: Jochen Hick, Andreas Strohfeldt
Producer: Jochen Hick
Director of Photography: Thomas Zahn, Jochen Hick
