70 films for 70 years — Rosa von Praunheim throws the most chaotic birthday party cinema has ever seen.
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 people and their fates runs through his extensive film work. For his 70th birthday he has now made 70 new short films. In the first part of the big project, he confronts Thilo Sarrazin with the mayor of Neukölln, Heinz Buschkowsky, and the Turkish lawyer and women's rights activist Seyran Ates; shows a homosexual hustler in Bucharest; gossip reporter Andreas Kurtz, who knows everything about Berlin's celebrities; Rosa's neighbors who live with her dependent brother; Esther Bauer, who survived Auschwitz, and the Berlin comedian Ades Zabel. High on the roofs of Berlin, the gay chimney sweep Alain Rappsilber tells him about his fetish leather meeting Folsom.
Direction
70 micro-portraits, zero chill, pure Rosa
Production
The sheer audacity of this birthday stunt
Editing
Whiplash between Auschwitz survivor and leather fetish meet
Director
Rosa von Praunheim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rosa von Praunheim legally changed his name from Holger Radtke in 1967, taking 'Rosa' from the German workers' movement and 'Praunheim' from a Frankfurt neighborhood — the ultimate self-invention.
This project sits at the intersection of two German traditions: the epic documentary (Moore, Wiseman) and the deliberately provocative queer auteur — Rosa refuses to choose between them.
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