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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis

2005 · 80 min

An unsettling, talk-heavy documentary that quietly confronts contradiction, leaving you to sit with discomfort rather than be told what to think.

Directed by
Rosa von Praunheim
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Ewald Althans, Winfried Bonengel, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller
Overview
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis. Rosa von Praunheim stated of the subjects featured in the documentary, “Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction.”

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Directed by
Rosa von Praunheim
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Ewald Althans, Winfried Bonengel, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller
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    Genres
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    Directed by
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    Written by
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    Starring
    Ewald Althans, Winfried Bonengel, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Rainer Fromm, Jörg Fischer, Rosa von Praunheim, Sven Reichardt, Jürgen Rieger
    Cinematography
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    Runtime
    80 min
    Country
    Germany
    Languages
    German

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