Still image from the film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern)
Item
- Title
- Still image from the film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern)
- Type
- Film
- Creator
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Richard Oswald (writer and director)
Magnus Hirschfeld (writer)
Max Fassbender (cinematographer) - Date
- 1919
- Description
- This 1919 silent film is thought to be one of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuality on screen. Telling the story of a gay musician and his boyfriend who are blackmailed by a acquaintance, it was made to protest German laws that criminalized homosexual relations between men.
- Format
- Film
- Place
- Germany
- Publisher
- Richard Oswald-Film Berlin
- Item sets
- Queer Art from the 20th Century
