At the end of the 1960s, in the midst of political and social turbulence between revolt and reaction, journalist and filmmaker Oswalt Kolle fights for his ideas of liberal sex education with great commitment and sometimes missionary zeal. But Kolle has to fight against fierce resistance: The German Film Industry's Voluntary Self-Regulation Body (FSK) wants to put his latest film "The Miracle of Love" on the index. In a tough and at times unintentionally comical battle, Kolle has to go through three instances before he wins full approval for the film with the help of his agile producer Lenz Schäfer and the resourceful lawyer Dr. Fritz Ascher.
Acting
Sylvester Groth commits fully to Kolle's awkward earnestness.
Direction
Zanke finds humor in bureaucratic puritanism without mocking her subject.
Director
Susanne Zanke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Oswalt Kolle sold 70 million books and was called 'the sex pope' — this film captures his bizarre mainstream respectability.
Germany's FSK still operates today; this 2002 film about 1968 shows how little the censorship apparatus actually changed structurally.
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