Story
Love in the age of Paragraph 175: In post-war Germany, a man keeps being sent to jail for his homosexuality and meets a man serving a life sentence. An intense film about desire and freedom. Hans (Franz Rogowski) is gay, which is still a crime in post-war Germany. The notorious §175 is still in force and destroys all Hans’ hopes for a life in freedom. In prison he, the multiple recidivist, meets Viktor (Georg Friedrich), a convicted murderer. Over the decades, the men’s initial disgust for each other develops into a intense connection full of respect and empathy.
Director
SEBASTIAN MEISE is an Austrian director and screenwriter. His acclaimed debut feature film Stilllife premiered at San Sebastian Film Festival and won several awards. His documentary film Outing was presented at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto. His latest feature film Great Freedom with Franz Rogowski and Georg Friedrich in the leading roles had its world premiere in the Official Selection Un Certain Regard of the Cannes Film Festival 2021 where it won the Jury Prize. The film was also awarded with the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film and for Best Actor Georg Friedrich, as well as with the CICAE Arthouse Award. Sebastian Meise co-founded the Vienna based production company FreibeuterFilm.Trailer
Info
Große Freiheit
Fiction Feature
German
Große Freiheit | FF2021
Austria, Germany
2021
100 min
OV with English subtitles
Sebastian Meise
Sebastian Meise, Thomas Reider
Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn
Benny Drechsel, Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann
Crystel Fournier, afc
Jörg Theil, Atanas Tcholakov, Manuel Meichsner
Joana Scrinzi, aea
Nils Pretter Molvaer, Peter Brötzmann
Michael Randel
Tanja Hausner, Andrea Hölzl
Eva Roth, Benjamin Roth
Piffl Medien
The Match Factory
FreibeuterFilm; Rohfilm Productions
Hans-Christian Boese, Piffl Medien: info@pifflmedien.de
Tags
HistoryLGBTQIA+Love and RomanceHuman RightsPolitics and PowerRacism and DiscriminationSexuality