Rosa von Praunheim
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.876 |
| Birthday | 1942-11-25 |
| Place of Birth | Riga, Latvia |
| Also Known As |
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
5.8/4
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
1990
Fire Under Your Ass
0/0
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Fire Under Your Ass
1989
Survival in New York
8/2
Rosa von Praunheim follows the lives and existential struggles of three contrasting German emigrant women in New York City. The protagonists not only...
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Survival in New York
1976
Underground and Emigrants
0/0
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts moveme...
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Underground and Emigrants
1979
Tally Brown, New York
5/2
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career...
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Tally Brown, New York
2007
Two Mothers
0/0
Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim searches for his biological mother after discovering late in life that he was adopted.
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Two Mothers
1984
The Bite
5/3
Turned while visiting New York, down-on-her-luck Neue Deutsche Welle vampire Sylvana struggles to get by in 1980s West Berlin when she realizes none o...
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The Bite
1975
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
3.5/2
In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation,...
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
2015
Desire Will Set You Free
4.3/9
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a tru...
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Desire Will Set You Free
2017
My Wonderful West Berlin
6.3/3
MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN recounts the lives and struggles of gay men in West-Berlin. Through present-day scenes and never before seen archival footage...
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My Wonderful West Berlin
2012
Rosakinder
5.2/5
Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday. After di...
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Rosakinder
2013
I Feel Like Disco
5.7/20
A youth in middle of self-discovery, offending with his father, just discovering his sexuality and hiding it again. A boy who's often lonely loses a l...
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I Feel Like Disco
1997
Birth of a Nation
6.3/3
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation
1996
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
1/1
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s former career as a sex worker and his relationship...
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I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
2011
Rent Boys
5.6/11
Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Be...
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Rent Boys
1988
Anita – Dances of Vice
5.1/7
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/...
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Anita – Dances of Vice
1968
Von Rosa von Praunheim
5/3
Directional debut by Germany's most famous queer filmmaker.
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Von Rosa von Praunheim
2009
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
0/0
You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least until you watch Bernd...
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On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2014
How I Learned to Love the Numbers
9/2
How I Learned to Love the Numbers is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OC...
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How I Learned to Love the Numbers
2018
Friendship of Men
5.5/2
In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, especially into his erotic experiences during his tra...
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Friendship of Men
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
5.5/2
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mike...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2012
King of Comics
5.2/5
You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most commercially successful German comic book creators, he...
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King of Comics
2019
Darkroom
6.1/15
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost comp...
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Darkroom
1968
Carla
0/0
Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.
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Carla
2020
Smart Berlin: Der "Stutti"
0/0
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Smart Berlin: Der "Stutti"
2021
Isolation
0/0
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic....
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Isolation
1977
George and Mike Kuchar
0/0
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George and Mike Kuchar
1967
Silvo
0/0
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Silvo
2003
Charlotte in Sweden
0/0
Rosa von Praunheim visits Charlotte von Mahlsdorf in Sweden.
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Charlotte in Sweden
2015
Vater
0/0
Starring Rosa von Praunheim & Christian Müller
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Vater
1987
Dolly, Lotte and Maria
0/0
A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: film star Dolly Haas, dancer Lotte Goslar and arti...
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
0/0
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany...
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
0/0
Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majority society. But he doesn't spare his own community...
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Glückskind: Der schwule Filmemacher Rosa von Praunheim ist 80
2022
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
4.9/4
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his l...
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2002
Pfui, Rosa!
0/0
German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and career in the documentary Phooey Rosa! With a quickly...
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Pfui, Rosa!
2005
Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
6.3/6
The film focuses on gay men who align themselves with hard-core right wing views, skinheads and Nazis. Rosa von Praunheim stated of the subjects feat...
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
2021
Queer Cinema
0/0
How gay, how lesbian, how trans is German cinema? A 3sat documentary looks back at 100 years of queer film history.
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Queer Cinema
2012
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
0/0
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for p...
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
1972
Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk
0/0
Short film directed by Rosa von Praunheim and Werner Schroeter. Considered lost.
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Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk
1986
September September
0/0
"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be depopulated. Past the '...
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September September
1990
Positive
4/4
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the governm...
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Positive
1990
Silence = Death
5.6/5
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
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