Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMost movies about World War 2 are either about the atrocities of the Holocaust, or how the brave Allied Forces defeated the Germans again. This movie however is about neither. In fact it turns it all somewhat upside down as it is about a young German family who have been abandoned by their Nazi parents … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor well over the past four decades Berlin’s Zoo Railway Station has been the main stomping ground for the city’s rent boys. Using archive footage from 1965 this fascinating documentary from gay activist filmaker Rosa Van Praunheim paints the scene there as it has evolved until the present day. It is a desperately sad tale … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGerman Philosopher Hannah Arendt and her husband the Marxist poet/philosopher Heinrich Blücher, both Jews, managed to escape the French Detention Camp where they had been imprisoned and lived out the rest of World War 2 in New York. They quickly established themselves, and Arendt scored many prestigious teaching positions …. she was the first ever … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOma and Bella are two warm and feisty octogenarians who live together in Berlin. Oma was originally from Poland and Bella from Lithuania and they both ended up in Berlin separately where they met each after the end of the World War 2 which had annihilated their entire families. They were as Oma said ‘displaced persons without so … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJean-Pierre Provut was born in 1935 in a tiny village in Algeria, and one of his very earliest memories is of sitting on his mother’s lap as she tried in vain to get him to say his own name. It’s not that he couldn’t, but just that he wouldn’t. He was happiest wearing his older … Continue reading
