Rosa von Praunheim
Birthday: 1942-11-25
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Biography: Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, was a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
Movies
Isolation
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dra...
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George and Mike Kuchar
Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US undergrou...
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from...
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Pfui, Rosa!
German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and care...
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazi...
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Queer Cinema
How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of quee...
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special film...
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria
A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: ...
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Fire Under Your Ass
The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less ent...
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September September
"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhause...
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berl...
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Positive
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they a...
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Silence = Death
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance....
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Underground and Emigrants
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with...
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Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunhei...
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majorit...
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Survival in New York
Rosa von Praunheim follows the lives and existential struggles of three contrasting German emigrant ...
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Two Mothers
Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim searches for his biological mother after discovering late in life that ...
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The Bite
Turned while visiting New York, down-on-her-luck Neue Deutsche Welle vampire Sylvana struggles to ge...
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in th...
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Desire Will Set You Free
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often c...
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My Wonderful West Berlin
MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN recounts the lives and struggles of gay men in West-Berlin. Through present...
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Rosakinder
Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on the...
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I Feel Like Disco
A youth in middle of self-discovery, offending with his father, just discovering his sexuality and h...
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I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s ...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Rent Boys
Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active pr...
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Anita – Dances of Vice
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) noto...
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Von Rosa von Praunheim
In the background, Rosa von Praunheim sings a love song in a foreign language. The sound engineer co...
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On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cin...
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers
A New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive...
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Friendship of Men
In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, esp...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diag...
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King of Comics
You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most comme...
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Darkroom
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate ...
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Carla
Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds....
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
The area around Stuttgarter Platz unites the most diverse worlds: It is a celebrity neighborhood, mi...
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two ...
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Praunheim Memoires
The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim remembers his humble origins from the unglamorous district of Frank...
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernseh...
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Rosa <3
A sensual hommage to Germany's most productive queer filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim....
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A Virus Knows No Morals
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bath...
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Transexual Menace
Pioneering gay German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim explores America’s burgeoning trans rights moveme...
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
Footage from rare guerilla recordings of Q&As of IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE, BUT THE S...
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Mario Wirz
Rosa von Praunheim shows an intimate portrait of his dying friend Mario Wirz....
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Meine Väter
Julia von Heinz’s 80-year-old father dies completely unexpectedly. From his estate, the filmmaker di...
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Last Exit Gran Canaria
In this daring autofictional documentary, filmmaker Tim Lienhard, raised in a Catholic family in sou...
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