The Einstein of Sex - Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
by Rosa von Praunheim
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Actor: Ben Becker, Friedel von Wangenheim, Meret Becker, Otto Sander, Wolfgang V?lzDirector: Rosa von Praunheim
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TLA Releasing
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Movie Review: A Topical Film
Summary: 4 Stars
The iconoclastic German gay director Rosa von Praunheim's film THE EINSTEIN OF SEX - LIFE AND WORK OF DR. M. HIRSCHFELD is all too topical. The director records the events of the life of Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew famous for his outspoken quest for sexual tolerance, his fight to get Paragraph 175 that made homosexual acts a crime in Germany repealed, and his establishing of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin in 1920. The movie is important for shedding light on a real pioneer that not enough people know about and for reminding us that progress is never certain nor guaranteed and can be destroyed in an instant. The Nazis, while Hirschfeld was out of the country, closed his institute and destroyed many of his records.
The film is well photographed and the director manages to make a quasi-documentary interesting, not always an easy task. There is more male nudity than any contemporary U. S. film would even attempt with the possible exception of the recent KINSEY. Included in the DVD is a documentary, parts of which cannot be heard, although the director comes through as quite a character. He has taken the name "Rosa" because of the pink triangles that homosexuals were forced to wear in the Nazi camps.
This film is well worth watching, both for its historical significance and its artistic achievement.
Summary of The Einstein of Sex - Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Long before the Stonewall Riots, Masters and Johnson or even the Kinsey Report, there was Dr. Magnus Herschfeld. A gay German Jew living in 19th-century Berlin, Hirschfeld didn't just champion gay rights - he discovered them. Now Rosa von Praunheim, the firebrand of German cinema, tells Herschfeld's story in this lush historical drama. Spicing an enthralling story of discovering and romance with a barbed penchant for politics, von Praunheim presents a compelling account of the doctor who founded the first gay political group in 1897 and established the first medical practice for gays, the renowned Institute on Sexual Science, which thrived until Nazi oppression.Comedy DVD Video
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