Rosa von Praunheim Movies

German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and career in the documentary Phooey Rosa! With a quickly...

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majority society. But he doesn't spare his own community...

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled "A Trip Through Lotti's Life" and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style...

A film portrait that shows the ups and downs in the life and career of pop star Evelyn Künneke. Künneke mostly acts herself in front of the...

In his film, Rosa von Praunheim approaches the famous communist theater director Erwin Piscator by developing irreverent improvisations in the spirit...

The press called him the “Pink Giant” or the “Beast from Beelitz”. Before the fall of the Wall, he murdered five women....

A look at gay history over the last 100 years.

Starring Rosa von Praunheim & Christian Müller

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in...

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim remembers his humble origins from the unglamorous district of Frankfurt Praunheim.

Two actors improvise biographical scenes about Hitler and Jesus. They discover more and more similarities and set out in search of the reasons for...

Feminist short film set in West Berlin.

Rosa von Praunheim follows the lives and existential struggles of three contrasting German emigrant women in New York City. The protagonists not only...

How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of queer film history.