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.
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Camera | Michael Khano | Director of Photography |
Directing | Sebastian Scherrer | Director |
Writing | Sebastian Scherrer | Writer |
Editing | Robert Handrick | Editor |
Camera | Luca Schliefer | Assistant Camera |
Production | Susanne Faust | Production Coordinator |
Sound | Luca Schliefer | Sound |
Production | Fabio Mauro | Producer |
Production | Sina Eckardt | Production Coordinator |
Production | Sascha Lienert | Line Producer |
Lighting | Dirk Hilbert | Gaffer |
Production | Marc Epping | Production Manager |
Production | Gwen Böttger | Production Coordinator |
Crew | Annette Harlfinger | Commissioning Editor |
Production | Sascha Lienert | Production Manager |
Art | Judith Prollius | Production Design |
Camera | Patrick Meyer-Clement | Director of Photography |
Production | Judith Prollius | Production Coordinator |
Production | Florian Hartung | Producer |
Crew | Silvia Menzel | Commissioning Editor |
Art | Luca Schliefer | Graphic Designer |
Costume & Make-Up | Laura Jasmin Schäffler | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Christina Zabel | Makeup Designer |