FILM SCREENING

 A Virus Knows No Morals 
Rosa von Praunheim, West Germany, 1985/1986
Dieter Dicken, Maria Hasenäcker, Christian Kesten, Eva‑Maria Kurz, Rosa von Praunheim, Thilo von Trotha Color / 82 minutes / OV with subtitles: FR–NL

PLOT

One of the very first films about HIV/AIDS. Praunheim plays a reactionary and carefree owner of a gay sauna, while the government plans to deport people with AIDS to the island HellGayLand. As the filmmaker himself wrote, it is “an act of furious provocation” in the form of a camp comedy.