Rosa von Praunheim Movies

Catchy mix of farce and documentary. Portrait of a Berlin theatre company made up entirely of the homeless, alcoholics and junks. They call...

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...

Bosom buddies BeV StroganoV, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn and Tima die Göttliche are four Berlin drag queens who met in the mid 1980s. These...

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

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting...

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for...

Two actors improvise biographical scenes about Hitler and Jesus. They discover more and more similarities and set out in search of the reasons for...

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

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

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

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

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...

Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in...

Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN recounts the lives and struggles of gay men in West-Berlin. Through present-day scenes and never before seen archival...

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

In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, especially into his erotic experiences during...

A German documentary studying concepts of hell developed over time in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, often overlapping -but not in Catholicism-...

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