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8:30 PM-10:30 PM

Coming Out

Film screening | Film screening

Coming Out © DEFA-Stiftung, Wolfgang Fritsche

Coming Out © DEFA-Stiftung, Wolfgang Fritsche

The film screening will be introduced by Dr Stephan Ehrig von der University of Glasgow.

Heiner Carow | GDR 1989 | 113 min | Feature Film | FSK (Germany) 12 | German with English subtitles.

Cast: Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer

As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him to live within the “norm.” He meets a shy girl who falls for him, and soon the couple is sharing an apartment. But Philipp cannot deny his passionate desire for a young man. After years of repressing his sexuality, he finally accepts himself for who he truly is. Hailed as the first and only feature film about gay life ever produced in communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, November 9, 1989.
Source: DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst

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