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Umsonst gelebt - Walter Schwarze
- Runtime:
- 18 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2004
- Country:
- Deutschland
- Director:
- Cast:
- Walter Schwarze
- Production Company:
- Rosa von Praunheim Film
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Short Film
This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My camera recorded his first public account of his five-year incarceration as a homosexual at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was in his fifties when he met Ali in his hometown of Leipzig; the two men became partners and re-mained close until his demise. And yet, Walter told me, he felt he had lived in vain because he had not had the good fortune of today's gays, who are able to grow up in freedom. Walter Schwarze died of cancer on May 10, 1998.
Rosa von Praunheim
Walter Schwarze is also portrayed in Praunheim's TOTE SCHWULE - LEBENDE LESBEN (DEAD GAY MEN AN LIVING LESBIANS).
BIOGRAFIE Rosa von Praunheim
Born in Riga, in 1942. He studied at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main and at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1967, von Praunheim directed his first short films. He made his cinema breakthrough in 1971 with the documentary Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt.
FILMOGRAFIE Rosa von Praunheim (selection)
2017 Überleben in Neukölln
2016 Welcome All Sexes: 30 Jahre Teddy Awards
2015 Härte
2013 Mario Wirz
2011 Mondo Lux - Die Bilderwelten des Werner Schroeter
2011 Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo
2011 König des Comics
2010 New York Memories
2007 Tote Schwule – lebende Lesben
2004 Umsonst gelebt - Walter Schwarze
2004 Männer Helden und schwule Nazis
1990 Positiv
1989 Schweigen = Tod
1971 Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt
@IMDb Rosa von Praunheim
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