“The most important thing for us, in the beginning, was that we could share some time in a bar and look in each other’s eyes,” he explains. Working with Meise was a collaborative experience, he says, which began with the pair gaining trust over drinks. For me it’s not a ‘gay movie’, it’s a love story it’s about longing for someone, about a society that doesn’t allow this to be, and the consequences that one has to take.”
“What interested me was the way that the characters kept secrets, they were not in a position where they had to explain, they would rather exist and breathe, and therefore have dignity. There’s the political dimension, but also artistically or cinematographically speaking,” says Rogoswki, recalling his early intrigue. “Obviously it’s a story that, for many reasons, is worth telling. We soon learn that he initially arrived in 1945, having been liberated from a Nazi concentration camp only to be immediately placed in prison, while another jail stint in 1957 provides one of the film’s few backstories, as Super 8 footage of a young couple in love briefly contradicts the picture’s bleak tone. Under its terms, which among other things criminalised sex between men, he is repeatedly incarcerated when we first meet him it’s 1968, but the extent of his familiarity with the law unfolds over three decades. Set in post-war Germany, Hans is a gay man living in a particularly awful era of Paragraph 175, a piece of homophobic legislation first employed in 1871 and not fully eradicated until 1994. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.“I am always scared of wasting time,” says Franz Rogowski from his home in Berlin, two days into a lockdown sentence determined by a positive Covid test, “and time doesn’t care.” As Hans Hoffman, the protagonist in Sebastian Meise’s second feature film, the prize-winning Great Freedom (it picked up a Jury Prize at Cannes last year), Rogowski is similarly at the mercy of time’s passing, albeit under a wholly different set of circumstances. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site.
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