FILM SCREENING

Leidenschaften
Rosa von Praunheim, West Germany, 1972
Fritz Mikesch, Tony Carol, Taylor Mead, Tally Brown, Yotuta Nagarakawa, Mino Kuruta, Florence Sum /
B&W / 73’ / V: DE-ENG / Subtitles: -

PLOT

Austrian painter Fritz Mikesch plays a Christ-like figure who, in his wanderings, encounters numerous eccentrics and outcasts, from the streets of Glasgow to those of Calcutta, New York and Hong Kong.
Funded by German television (ZDF), two-thirds of Leidenschaften’s 60,000-mark budget went towards covering the living expenses of the ‘diabolical trio’ comprising Rosa von Praunheim, Fritz and Elfi Mikesch. Certain scenes in the film, deemed pornographic, were censored by ZDF when it was broadcast.