Rosa von Praunheim Movies

You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least...

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

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.

A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: film star Dolly Haas, dancer Lotte Goslar and...

Rosa von Praunheim visits Charlotte von Mahlsdorf in Sweden.

No Eastern cliché fits the small village of Wrodow in the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern, about which Rosa von Praunheim filmed a documentary...

Documentary portrait of German production designer Albrecht Becker.

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...

A fictionalized account about the lurid lives of a group of eccentric cabaret artists who have come from America to Berlin looking for social...

Via the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive: "Shocking, often hilarious, and always controversial, Rosa von Praunheim delivers a...

Pioneering gay German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim explores America’s burgeoning trans rights movement—from early leaders like Virginia...

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

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

A look at gay history over the last 100 years.

Rosa von Praunheim shows an intimate portrait of his dying friend Mario Wirz.

Rosa von Praunheim was inspired to make this film by his own radio play “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from 1986, when he improvised...

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.