Rosa von Praunheim Movies

Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday. After...

A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.

A staged documentary by Berlin’s Rosa von Praunheim, who gathers five women who came of age in the 1930s—ranging from a lesbian-feminist...

Rosa von Praunheim creates the portrait of a committed woman, a fighter against homophobia and AIDS. The film, which honors Laura Halding-Hoppenheit,...

Rosa von Praunheim shows an intimate portrait of his dying friend Mario Wirz.

No Eastern cliché fits the small village of Wrodow in the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern, about which Rosa von Praunheim filmed a documentary...

The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim remembers his humble origins from the unglamorous district of Frankfurt Praunheim.

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.

Rosa von Praunheim is the satanic sow, incarnated by the wanton actor Armin Dallapiccola. A poetic compendium of life and death with pushy fans, the...

Self-reflection of a star person played by a woman.

Joe Luga was a singer and accompanied the German soldiers in women's clothing on the Russian front. Nothing happened to him. It was only in the...

Lady Macbeth, driven by ambition, urges her husband, Macbeth, to murder King Duncan. Macbeth becomes king but descends into madness. A Scottish...

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

“This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My...

In the background, Rosa von Praunheim sings a love song in a foreign language. The sound engineer counts as the camera moves over Rosa’s black...

Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in...

An astrologer informs Rosa von Praunheim that he only has 13 days left to live. Rosa then decides to organize his estate. Unrealized films are...

A film portrait that shows the ups and downs in the life and career of pop star Evelyn Künneke. Künneke mostly acts herself in front of the...