Rosa von Praunheim Movies

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

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

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual...

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...

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

Short film by Rosa von Praunheim

A staged documentary by Berlin’s Rosa von Praunheim, who gathers five women who came of age in the 1930s—ranging from a lesbian-feminist...

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...

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

Documentary about the Berlin-based organization ACT and its unusual educational program. Founded by former schoolteacher Maike Plath and two other...

Via the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive: "Shocking, often hilarious, and always controversial, Rosa von Praunheim delivers a...

“I am a hypochondriac”, admits Rosa Von Praunheim, the icon of the gay movement, right at the beginning at the film. The director, who...

Documentary short by Rosa von Praunheim.

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every...

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

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...

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