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Great Freedom

  • Sebastian Meise
  • 116 min
  • Austria, Germany
  • 2021
  • Fiction
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Heavily awarded, epic, and queer prison drama masterfully breathes life into a piece of shocking German postwar history, in three time periods.

Homosexual Hans Hoffmann has survived a concentration camp, but what he can look forward to after the war is to be thrown in jail repeatedly. All in accordance with so-called paragraph 75, which says that “unnatural sex” between men is illegal. The film departs from 1969, but looks back at 1945 and 1957, and vibrates with anger and frustration, but also romance and passion. Franz Rogowski (Undine, GFF 2021, Transit) is magical as Hans, and Georg Friedrich is brilliant as Viktor, the initially homophobic cellmate, who in time becomes the most important relation of all. Great Freedom is a beautiful contemplation of human connections always finding a way, even during the most dismal conditions. Austria’s Oscars contribution.

- Camilla Larsson

Language
German
Subtitles
Swedish
Original title
Grosse freiheit
  • Drama
  • HBTQ
  • Samhälle
  • Social rättvisa
  • Kärlek
Director
Sebastian Meise
Producers
Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser, Benny Drechsel
Screenplay
Thomas Reider , Sebastian Meise
Cinematographer
Crystel Fournier
Editor
Joana Scrinzi
Music
Peter Brötzmann , Nils Petter Molvaer
Cast
Anton von Lucke , Franz Rogowski , Georg Friedrich , Thomas Prenn
Contact
The Match Factory,  info@matchfactory.de