Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Drama
Release:
May 1919
Production:
Richard Oswald Produktion
Cast:
Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, Magnus Hirschfeld, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Schulz, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Ernst Pittschau, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Alexandra Wiellegh, Clementine Plessner, Anita Berber, Helga Molander
Tags:
male homosexuality, docudrama, lgbt, partially lost film, gay theme
