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Release Date:
January 16, 2024
Original Title:
Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Alternate Titles:
Rosa Winkel
Verbotene Liebe. Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Genres:
Documentary | History | TV Movie
Production Companies:
Februar Film
ZDF
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 45
Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era - but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror: Elli Smula was persecuted as a lesbian, Liddy Bacroff was harassed by the authorities as a "transvestite" and Rudolf Brazda was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp because of his homosexuality. In order to tell their stories, the actor Jannik Schümann and the activists Julia Monro and Kerstin Thost go looking for clues in archives and talk to historians. You will learn how some people managed to live out their identity and assert themselves as queer people during the Nazi era despite the most adverse circumstances.
Assistant Camera:
Luca Schliefer
Commissioning Editor:
Silvia Menzel
Annette Harlfinger
Costume Design:
Laura Jasmin Schäffler
Director:
Sebastian Scherrer
Director of Photography:
Michael Khano
Patrick Meyer-Clement
Editor:
Robert Handrick
Gaffer:
Dirk Hilbert
Graphic Designer:
Luca Schliefer
Line Producer:
Sascha Lienert
Makeup Designer:
Christina Zabel
Producer:
Fabio Mauro
Florian Hartung
Production Coordinator:
Sina Eckardt
Gwen Böttger
Judith Prollius
Susanne Faust
Production Design:
Judith Prollius
Production Manager:
Marc Epping
Sascha Lienert
Sound:
Luca Schliefer
Writer:
Sebastian Scherrer
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