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Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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.

  • Known ForDirecting
  • Born25 November 1942 (age 83)
  • Place of BirthRiga, Latvia

Rosa von Praunheim

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Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is 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.

  • Known ForDirecting
  • Born25 November 1942 (age 83)
  • Place of BirthRiga, Latvia
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Satanic Sow
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2025
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Rosa <3
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2025
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Thirty Years with the Whip
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2024
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
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8.3
2024
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
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4.9
2022
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
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2022
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
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5.0
2022
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Die Nachtigall – Der grausame Sohn
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2021
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Isolation
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2021
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Queer Cinema
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2021
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Operndiven - Operntunten
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8.0
2020
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Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“
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2020
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Darkroom
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5.5
2019
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Friendship of Men
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5.5
2018
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Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
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2.0
2017
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ACT! Wer bin ich?
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8.0
2017
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My Wonderful West Berlin
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6.3
2017
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Tough Love
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6.2
2015
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Praunheim Memoires
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2015
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Vater
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2015
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Desire Will Set You Free
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4.9
2015
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Laura – Das Juwel von Stuttgart
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2014
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Mario Wirz
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2014
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Hitler und Jesus – eine Liebesgeschichte
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2014
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Auf der Suche nach Heilern
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2014
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers
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9.0
2014
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I Feel Like Disco
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5.7
2013
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King of Comics
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5.2
2012
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
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2012
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Rosakinder
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5.2
2012
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Rent Boys
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5.6
2011
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
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5.5
2011
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New York Memories
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4.8
2010
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20 × Brandenburg
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2010
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History of Hell
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1.0
2009
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24 Hours Berlin
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9.0
2009
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On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
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2009
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Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?
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5.1
2008
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Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians
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3.5
2008
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Rosa Riese
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2008
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Six Dead Students
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2007
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Two Mothers
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2007
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Mit Olga auf der Wolga
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2007
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
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5.8
2007
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
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6.3
2005
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Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze
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2005
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Your Heart in My Head
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4.4
2005
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
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2005
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Liebe und Leid – Albrecht Becker
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2005
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Schwein gehabt – Joe Luga
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2005
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Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
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2004
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Charlotte in Sweden
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2003
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Ratten 07 – Im Berliner Dschungel
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2003
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Queens Don’t Cry
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4.0
2002
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Pfui, Rosa!
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2002
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Cows Knocked Up by Fog
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2002
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
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5.6
2000
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Fassbinder’s Women
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5.6
2000
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Wonderful Wrodow
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2000
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Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement
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1.0
1998
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Birth of a Nation
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6.3
1997
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Transexual Menace
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5.5
1996
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I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
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1.0
1996
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Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity
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5.5
1995
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I Am My Own Woman
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4.3
1992
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Ein Mann namens Pis
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1991
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Stolz und schwul
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1991
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Silence = Death
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5.6
1990
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Life Is Like a Cucumber
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5.5
1990
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Positive
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4.0
1990
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Fire Under Your Ass
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1990
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Die Weisheit
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1990
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Survival in New York
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8.0
1989
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Anita – Dances of Vice
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5.1
1988
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria
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1987
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A Virus Knows No Morals
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4.5
1986
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September September
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1986
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Horror Vacui
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5.0
1984
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The Bite
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5.0
1984
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City of Lost Souls
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4.7
1983
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Red Love
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1983
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Our Corpses Are Still Alive
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1981
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Tally Brown, New York
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5.0
1979
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Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
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4.0
1979
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Der 24. Stock
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1979
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Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
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1979
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George and Mike Kuchar
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1977
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Sigrid Gräfin von Richthofen
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1977
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Underground and Emigrants
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1976
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Marianne Rosenberg
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1976
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I’m an Antistar
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1976
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Berliner Bettwurst
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4.0
1975
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
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5.2
1975
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Rosa von Praunheim zeigt
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1974
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Axel von Auersperg
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1974
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Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk
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1972
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Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
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1972
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Passions
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1972
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Footage from Q&As with Rosa von Praunheim, including MoMA’s Cineprobe Screening, 1972
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1972
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Die Bettwurst
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5.3
1971
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Homosexuelle in New York
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1971
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It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
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5.1
1971
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Beckett in Berlin
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1969
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Schwestern der Revolution
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5.5
1969
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Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 2. Teil
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5.0
1969
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Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Straße – 1. Teil
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1968
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Von Rosa von Praunheim
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5.0
1968
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Carla
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1968
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Silvo
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1967