Rosa von Praunheim Movies

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...

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

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter losses and, according to Praunheim, lesbian women...

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

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled "A Trip Through Lotti's Life" and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style...

Portrait on Marianne Rosenberg, underground icon Tabea Blumenschein dancing in the background.

Turned while visiting New York, down-on-her-luck Neue Deutsche Welle vampire Sylvana struggles to get by in 1980s West Berlin when she realizes none...

I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s former career as a sex worker and his...

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is...

A film portrait that shows the ups and downs in the life and career of pop star Evelyn Künneke. Künneke mostly acts herself in front of the...

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

The press called him the “Pink Giant” or the “Beast from Beelitz”. Before the fall of the Wall, he murdered five women....

A river trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg, in which mainly German seniors take part. For 14 days you will experience a dense program of churches,...

In his film, Rosa von Praunheim approaches the famous communist theater director Erwin Piscator by developing irreverent improvisations in the spirit...

Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his...

A short film by Rosa von Praunheim

German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and career in the documentary Phooey Rosa! With a quickly...

How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of queer film history.

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

Rosa von Praunheim follows the lives and existential struggles of three contrasting German emigrant women in New York City. The protagonists not only...