Four German drag queens spent 20 years slaying stages AND systemic oppression—wig snatched, government shook.
Bosom buddies BeV StroganoV, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn and Tima die Göttliche are four Berlin drag queens who met in the mid 1980s. These four queens became Germany’s most popular drag performers and have been busy fertilizing the German cultural scene. Besides being performers, they are also political activists – in AIDS awareness, anti-gay violence, the sex workers movement and the struggle against the extreme right and racism. The film tells their story.
Direction
Rosa von Praunheim's intimate, unflinching eye on queer Berlin.
Production
Archival footage spanning 1980s underground to 2000s mainstream.
Costume
Two decades of German drag evolution—camp, couture, chaos.
Director
Rosa von Praunheim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These four essentially documented themselves into German LGBTQ+ history—before mainstream archives cared to preserve queer voices.
Rosa von Praunheim, a legendary queer filmmaker himself, had known these queens since the 1980s—this isn't observation, it's love letter.
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