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Paragraph 175
New Yorker Films
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Rupert Everett (narrator)
During World War II 100,000 German homosexual men were sent to concentration camps. This documentary tells their story and includes personal accounts of six of the survivors.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Sharon Wood
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Robert Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 16, 2002
Video: April 16, 2002
Theatrical: September 13, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
76 minutes, BW / Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA /UK/ Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English/ German/ French (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
An exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact.

90
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
At once admirable and deeply unsettling.

90
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Speaks so eloquently for itself, there's not much more for me to do than urge you to get over to the Nuart for the one week it's playing in Los Angeles.

90
Variety
Dennis Harvey
The definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's astonishing, and moving.
88
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Soberly, deeply effective.
88
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
It's an eye opener to how quickly a society can switch from being open and tolerant to pointing fingers -- and worse -- at those deemed different.
83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Perhaps the most disturbing fact in the film comes in the text at the end: Paragraph 175 remained on the books in both halves of postwar Germany until the late 1960s.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Illuminating, poignant and heartening.

80
Village Voice
Elliott Stein
The tales told are bitter, horrific in detail...yet often leavened with irony and humor. Rupert Everett's low-key narration serves the film well.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Victimization of homosexuals during the Holocaust era has often been overlooked. Epstein and Friedman lucidly recount this woeful history, with help from Everett's articulate narration.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A worthy addition to the growing canon of Holocaust documentaries.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Explores the comparatively enlightened Berlin culture that had allowed homosexuality to flourish in intellectual and social circles before the Nazis forcibly changed the national mind-set.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Evokes feelings of fascination and heartbreak, as well as a sense of disbelief.


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