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Mein wunderbares West-Berlin / Galeria Alaska Productions präsentiert einen Film von Jochen Hick ; koproduziert von Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg ; Buch, Regie & Produzent, Jochen Hick.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD/PAL 030 951 DVD + booklet
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Germany--Berlin.
- Gay people.
- Gay men--Germany--Berlin.
- Gay men.
- Lesbians--Germany--Berlin.
- Lesbians.
- Subculture--Germany--Berlin.
- Subculture.
- Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- At head of title on container: Vier jahrzehnte schwules leben
- Title in IMDb: My wonderful West Berlin
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In German; optional subtitles in English.
- Closed-captioned in German for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Region 2; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- digital optical stereo Dolby Digital
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- PAL
- video file DVD video region 2
- Summary:
- "Today's hip image of Berlin is based on the city's vibrant and subversive subcultures, which originally emerged within the grey walls surrounding West Berlin. The queer scene played a major role in creating that subculture, with its sexual diversity and its wild and unconstrained party culture, ranging from the notorious clubs to CSD. Many of the scene's actors, such as the Gay Museum, the Teddy Award, AIDS help organizations, and the queer magazine Siegessäule originated before 1989. Yet gays in West Berlin suffered greatly under an incongruous provision in German law - the infamous 'Paragraph 175' - that made homosexual acts between men a crime up until its reform in 1969. Raids and arrests in bars were common, yet ultimately failed in suppressing gay life in West Berlin. Instead, the city turned into a gay capital. The late seventies in particular were a period of great sexual and political freedoms and more intense social intermingling between the gay-, hetero-, and transsexual" -- Jochen Hick.
- Participant:
- Egmont Fassbinder, Romy Haag, Peter Hedenström, Gerhard Hoffmann, Rene Koch, Patsy L'amour LaLove, Wilfried Laule.
- Credits:
- Cameras, Alexander Gheorghiu, Jochen Hick; editor. Thomas Keller.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2017.
- Special feature: original theatrical railer.
- OCLC:
- 1029734674
- Publisher Number:
- 4040592006666
- D226 Salzgeber
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