FILM
COMING OUT

Fri, 06/28/2019
WENDE MUSEUM

RSVP VIA WENDE MUSEUM

Please Note: There will be a reception in the Wende Museum sculpture garden from 6:00 to 7:00pm

GDR 1989, 108 minutes.  German with English subtitles
Director: Heiner Carow, Writer: Wolfram Witt, Cinematography: Martin Schlesinger, Editor: Evelyn Carow Music: Stefan Carow, Cast: Matthias Freihof, Michael Gwisdek, Dirk Kummer, Dagmar Manzel, Axel Wandtke. 

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 fell, November 9, 1989.

East Berlin, toward the end of the 1980s. Philipp (Freihof), a young teacher, begins a relationship with his colleague Tanja (Manzel). Although he has kept his real sexual orientation a secret for years, a renewed encounter with a former friend Jacob (Wandtke), who is gay, reminds Philipp of his repressed longing.

When Philipp meets Matthias (Kummer) and begins to fall in love with him, he begins to lead a double life: Tanja must learn nothing of Matthias, and Matthias must learn nothing of Tanja. But this cannot go on for long, and Philipp must finally come to terms with who he is.
 

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