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Paragraph 175
Universal acclaim
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by: Sharon Wood
Directed by:
Robert Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 13, 2000
DVD: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 76 minutes, BW / Color
Origin: USA /UK/ Germany
Language(s): English/ German/ French (with English subtitles)
Summary
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.
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What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
The definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
It's astonishing, and moving.
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Soberly, deeply effective.
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.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A worthy addition to the growing canon of Holocaust documentaries.
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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Evokes feelings of fascination and heartbreak, as well as a sense of disbelief.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
ed t gave it a10:
Inspirational for any one who sees that homosexuality is a daily struggle. these few survivors lived through hell and still saw a reason to live, not sure i would have felt the same.
Chad S. gave it an8:
My mind flashbacked to Alan Parker's "Pink Floyd: the Wall" when the Nazi screams, "And this one looks queer..." during a musical number that resembles a rally straight out of "The Triumph of the Will". It never occured to me that the Germans killed their own kind; that a gay German might as well have been Jewish. "Paragraph 175" is only as good as its subjects, and yes, the testimonies by concentration camp survivors are at turns, nostalgic, gripping, and heartbreaking. These are real tears by men with something to cry about. It's a thing of fascination to learn how the women didn't have to pay with their lives; that even the Nazis thought lesbians were cute.
