Completed - GERMAN - Documentary, Drama - 102 minutes
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Stefan HAUPT Cast : Marianne SÄGEBRECHT, Sven SCHELKER, Anatole TAUBMAN, Matthias HUNGERBÜHLER, Peter JECKLIN, Marie LEUENBERGER
Zürich in the mid 1950s: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a member of the gay organization DER KREIS. There he gets to know the transvestite star Röbi Rapp – and immediately falls head over heels in love with him. Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the organization, which, in the whole Europe, is seen as the symbol of gay emancipation. Ernst finds himself torn between his "bourgeois" existence and his commitment to homosexuality; for Röbi it is about his first serious love relationship. A relationship which will last a lifetime. From the present, the film looks back to the time when the “Mother” of all European homosexual organizations had its high point until it fell apart. While the repression against homosexuals became increasingly more intense in Zurich, two young and very different men fight for their love and – together with their friends – for gay rights.
Country(ies) : SWITZERLAND
Berlinale 2014 (Teddy Award for Best Documentary & Panorama Audience Award)Boston LGBT Film Fest 2014 (Audience Award for Best Documentary)Torino LGBT Film Festival 2014 (Audience Award for Best Feature Film)Festroia International Film Festival 2014 ( Prize Man and his Environment)Outfest - Los Angeles 2014 (Grand Jury award for Best Documentary Feature)Perlen Queer Film Fest Hannover 2014 (Audience Award for Best Documentary)Identities Queer Film Festival 2014 (Audience Award)Festival des Images aux Mots 2015 (Audience Award)Swiss Film Award 2015 (Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor)