02/28/19
7:00pm

Paragraph 175

Film Screening

  • Goethe-Institut New York, New York, NY

  • Language German with English subtitles
  • Price Free
  • Part of series: Queer Kino

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Rupert Everett narrates this harrowing documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis based on an obscure paragraph in Germany’s penal code dating back to 1871.

Dir. Robert Epstein/Jeffrey Friedman 2000, 81 min. 

This event is part of the Goethe-Institut New York's "Queer as German Folk" series, with which we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in 2019 as a milestone in the fight for gender diversity and equality.