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Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

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Documentary

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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.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

German

Runtime

94 mins

Rating

10/10

Release Date

31 October 2013

Country

Germany

Cast

Peter Bausdorf

Peter Bausdorf

Bettina Dziggel

Bettina Dziggel

Michael Eggert

Michael Eggert

Andreas Fux

Andreas Fux

Marinka Körzendörfer

Marinka Körzendörfer

Jürgen Litfin

Jürgen Litfin

Marina Krug

Marina Krug

Klaus Laabs

Klaus Laabs

Gerhard Plöse

Gerhard Plöse

Christian Pulz

Christian Pulz

Michael Raimann

Michael Raimann

Peter Rausch

Peter Rausch

Eduard Stapel

Eduard Stapel

Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell

Günter Litfin

Günter Litfin

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Wolfgang Beyer

Wolfgang Beyer

Lothar Dönitz

Lothar Dönitz

Fred Frumberg

Fred Frumberg

Dieter Neuendorf

Dieter Neuendorf

Brigitte Schütze

Brigitte Schütze

Bernd Stapel

Bernd Stapel

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