Film Screening: Different from the Others
When:
Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025 6:00p -
8:00p
Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025 6:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$15
Hosted by:
Categories:
LGBTQ+, Movies
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=26362413
Presented by The Brattle, Wicked Queer and the Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is thrilled to partner with The Brattle and Wicked Queer for this special program of film screenings, featuring groundbreaking contributions of German filmmakers and offering a diverse array of films exploring the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals and communities. Curated by Anne Dymek, Harvard University, this series is a rare opportunity to see some of the most important queer cinema from the first half of the 20th century alongside groundbreaking work from the 1970s through today. Dymek and her students will provide introductions to each film, creating a forum for thought and conversation.
One of the first gay-themed films in the history of cinema, DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS was banned at the time of its release, later burned by the Nazis, and was believed lost for more than forty years. Using recently discovered film segments, still photos and censorship documents from different archives, Filmmuseum Muenchen has resurrected this truly groundbreaking silent film for new audiences.
Enacted in 1871, the German penal code's Paragraph 175 sentenced thousands of accused German homosexual men to jail terms for ‘unnatural vice between men.’ In 1919, director Richard Oswald and psychologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld created a film intended to expose the unjust Paragraph 175 and help liberate the ‘third sex’from legal persecution and public scorn.
DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS casts Conrad Veidt (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) as Paul Korner, a gay concert pianist blackmailed by a closeted low-life named Bollek. When Korner's budding romance with a handsome young music student runs afoul of Bollek's extortion, Korner goes to the German courts for protection. But the draconian Paragraph 175 makes criminals out of both accuser and accused, and the love Korner has found may cost him his career, his freedom, or his life. – KinoLorber films
Germany 1919
Director: Richard Oswald
50 min • Digital
