Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era - but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror: Elli Smula was persecuted as a lesbian, Liddy Bacroff was harassed by the authorities as a "transvestite" and Rudolf Brazda was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp because of his homosexuality. In order to tell their stories, the actor Jannik Schümann and the activists Julia Monro and Kerstin Thost go looking for clues in archives and talk to historians. You will learn how some people managed to live out their identity and assert themselves as queer people during the Nazi era despite the most adverse circumstances.
Directing | Sebastian Scherrer | Director |
Writing | Sebastian Scherrer | Writer |
Editing | Robert Handrick | Editor |
Camera | Michael Khano | Director of Photography |
Camera | Patrick Meyer-Clement | Director of Photography |
Sound | Luca Schliefer | Sound |
Production | Fabio Mauro | Producer |
Production | Florian Hartung | Producer |
Crew | Silvia Menzel | Commissioning Editor |
Crew | Annette Harlfinger | Commissioning Editor |
Production | Sascha Lienert | Line Producer |
Production | Sina Eckardt | Production Coordinator |
Production | Gwen Böttger | Production Coordinator |
Production | Judith Prollius | Production Coordinator |
Production | Marc Epping | Production Manager |
Production | Sascha Lienert | Production Manager |
Production | Susanne Faust | Production Coordinator |
Lighting | Dirk Hilbert | Gaffer |
Camera | Luca Schliefer | Assistant Camera |
Art | Luca Schliefer | Graphic Designer |
Costume & Make-Up | Laura Jasmin Schäffler | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Christina Zabel | Makeup Designer |
Art | Judith Prollius | Production Design |