It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives

1971 [GERMAN]

Action / Documentary / Drama

Plot summary

Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. His adventures begin on the streets of Berlin, where the shy brunette Daniel meets the blonde Clemens, who invites him home for coffee and offers him a place to stay. Soon Daniel is living with Clemens and believes he has found the love of his life. The two try to imitate a bourgeois marriage and its lifestyle. But after four months of tedium, Daniel is cruised by a rich older man who entices him to move into his villa, where he encounters a group of older gays, pretentious in their appreciations of fine art and classical music, who fawn over him.

Top cast

Norbert Losch as (uncredited)
Bernd Feuerhelm as Daniel
Berryt Bohlen as Clemens
Ernst Kuchling as Der Reiche
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592.35 MB
1280*714
German 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 4 min
Seeds 1
1.07 GB
1920*1072
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 4 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Gordon-11

Still rings true today

It is just 67 minutes long, but it contains almost the whole universe of gay experiences and gay culture. The psychology, behaviour and views of gays 50 years ago still ring true today. It feels like I have watched a queer studies academic essay, and I mean it in a good way.
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Reviewed by fabiog-26-358885 9 / 10

Fight for your rights! and we did it... (the best we could...)

It's excellent. It's a great essay (done in a particular and creative way) on gay life by a gay man who lived in Berlin in 1970, and it sounds valid even today to think about the progress we have made. 50 years later, we can say, many good things have happened for homosexual people in many countries of the world and societies have changed too. As the movie asks for, many of us have come together and fought for our rights (and still are) ... Equality marriage is a reality (even parenthood by adoption or surrogacy, etc.) not even imagined in this movie . We also navigate the water of AIDS... We learned how to maintain a relationship for years or decades (through agreements that are often not so "classic")... and even we helped heterosexuals to expand their options in terms of ways of being as a couple or building a family (for example through civil unions, or open relationships, etc...) And most importantly, we learned how to overcome the internal homophobia, the self-hatred that many of us had developed as children, simply because our family and the people around us were homophobic ... I think this is the main subject of this film ... The fight against homophobia starting with ourselves and of course the others (the macho culture, the submission of women , the religions built around that, etc.). And we did ... (and we still are) ..

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