
Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR (2013)
Oct. 31, 2013 | Germany | 94 Min | IMDb: 6.1 | TMDb:10 | Not RatedGenre: Documentary Directors: Andreas Strohfeldt, Jochen Hick, Actor: Andreas Fux, Bettina Dziggel, Christian Pulz, Gerhard Plöse, Jürgen Litfin, Klaus Laabs, Marina Krug, Marinka Körzendörfer, Michael Eggert, Peter Bausdorf,Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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