45 minutos
Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era - but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror: Elli Smula was persecuted as a lesbian, Liddy Bacroff was harassed by the authorities as a "transvestite" and Rudolf Brazda was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp because of his homosexuality. In order to tell their stories, the actor Jannik Schümann and the activists Julia Monro and Kerstin Thost go looking for clues in archives and talk to historians. You will learn how some people managed to live out their identity and assert themselves as queer people during the Nazi era despite the most adverse circumstances.
Jan-Philipp Jarke
Self - Narrator (voice)
Leon Rüttinger
Rudolf Brazda (reenactment scenes)
Olivia Marie Purka
Liddy Bacroff (reenactment scenes)
Marion Hellebrandt
Elli Smula (reenactment scenes)
Jannik Schümann
Self - Interviewee & Investigator
Julia Monro
Self - Interviewee & Investigator
Kerstin Thost
Self - Interviewee & Investigator
Anna Hájková
Self - Interviewee
Alexander Zinn
Self - Interviewee
Bodie Ashton
Self - Interviewee
Philipp Osten
Self - Interviewee
Christian Dirks
Self - Interviewee
Ricarda Rogalla
Self - Interviewee
Rudolf Brazda
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Magnus Hirschfeld
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Röhm
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Sahm
Self (archive footage)
