Rosa von Praunheim Movies

  • 1976
    I’m an Antistar

    I’m an Antistar

    I’m an Antistar

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    A film portrait that shows the ups and downs in the life and career of pop star Evelyn Künneke. Künneke mostly acts herself in front of the...

    I’m an Antistar
  • 2005
    Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

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    Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...

    Who is Helene Schwarz?
  • 1984
    The Bite

    The Bite

    The Bite

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    Turned while visiting New York, down-on-her-luck Neue Deutsche Welle vampire Sylvana struggles to get by in 1980s West Berlin when she realizes none...

    The Bite
  • 2014
    How I Learned to Love the Numbers

    How I Learned to Love the Numbers

    How I Learned to Love the Numbers

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    How I Learned to Love the Numbers is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder...

    How I Learned to Love the Numbers
  • 2011
    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

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

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
  • 2009
    History of Hell

    History of Hell

    History of Hell

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

    History of Hell
  • 2018
    Friendship of Men

    Friendship of Men

    Friendship of Men

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

    Friendship of Men
  • 1976
    Underground and Emigrants

    Underground and Emigrants

    Underground and Emigrants

    01976HD

    In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...

    Underground and Emigrants
  • 2000
    Fassbinder’s Women

    Fassbinder’s Women

    Fassbinder’s Women

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    An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

    Fassbinder’s Women
  • 2005
    Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

    Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

    Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

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    The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis. Rosa von Praunheim stated of the subjects...

    Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
  • 1972
    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk

    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk

    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk

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    Short film directed by Rosa von Praunheim and Werner Schroeter. Considered lost.

    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk
  • 1986
    A Virus Knows No Morals

    A Virus Knows No Morals

    A Virus Knows No Morals

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    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...

    A Virus Knows No Morals
  • 2014
    Praunheim Memoires

    Praunheim Memoires

    Praunheim Memoires

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    The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim remembers his humble origins from the unglamorous district of Frankfurt Praunheim.

    Praunheim Memoires
  • 2000
    Wonderful Wrodow

    Wonderful Wrodow

    Wonderful Wrodow

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    No Eastern cliché fits the small village of Wrodow in the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern, about which Rosa von Praunheim filmed a documentary...

    Wonderful Wrodow
  • 1971
    Die Bettwurst

    Die Bettwurst

    Die Bettwurst

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    It is love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim’s outrageous...

    Die Bettwurst
  • 1979
    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot

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    A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.

    Death Magazine: or How to Be a Flowerpot
  • 1984
    Horror Vacui

    Horror Vacui

    Horror Vacui

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    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...

    Horror Vacui
  • 1989
    Survival in New York

    Survival in New York

    Survival in New York

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

    Survival in New York
  • 2012
    King of Comics

    King of Comics

    King of Comics

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    You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most commercially successful German comic book...

    King of Comics
  • 2021
    Isolation

    Isolation

    Isolation

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    A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the...

    Isolation