Paragraph 175 ( Paragraph One Seventy-Five )

Paragraph 175 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Paragraph One Seventy-Five
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
74 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Rob Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman

Written By:
Sharon Wood

Actors:
Rupert Everett ..... Narrator (voice)
Klaus Müller ..... Himself - Historian
Karl Gorath ..... Himself
Pierre Seel ..... Himself
Heinz F. ..... Himself
Annette Eick ..... Herself
Albrecht Becker ..... Himself
Gad Beck ..... Himself
Heinz Dörmer ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Academy-award winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman direct this harrowing, lyrical look at the persecution of homosexuals during the Third Reich. German historian and member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Klaus Muller interviews the dozen or so surviving victims, now frail and wizened, who recount their experiences. Jewish resistance fighter Gad Beck recalls how he posed as a Hitler Youth in an ultimately vain attempt at saving his lover. One man was freed from a sentence at Dachau only to be interned again a Buchenwald. Another recalls hearing, in the distance, a 'singing forest' -- the sound of gays bound and tortured by Nazis in a local grove. Epstein and Friedman fashion a layered narrative consisting not only of interviews but also archival footage depicting background life in Weimar Germany.

Paragraph 175 interviews the few surviving homosexuals who endured unspeakable horrors under the Nazi regime. Through the testimonies of these men and woman, an untold chapter of the Holocaust unfolds. It is extremely painful for these survivors to recall what they went through, and their expressive silences speak volumes.

Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 12 June, 2009.

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