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Paragraph 175 [videorecording] / a Telling Pictures production ; produced and directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman ; director of research/associate producer, Klaus Müller ; producers, Michael Ehrenzweig, Janet Cole ; writer, Sharon Wood

Published
[United States] : New Yorker Video, [2002]
Physical Description
1 videocassette (81 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
Additional Creators
Epstein, Robert, Friedman, Jeffrey, 1959-, Müller, Klaus, Ehrenzweig, Michael, Cole, Janet, Wood, Sharon, Everett, Rupert, Telling Pictures, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

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Language Note
English, German, and French with English subtitles.
Summary
Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, many of whom were interred in concentration camps during World War II because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175, which states: An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights may also be imposed.
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ISBN
156730253X
Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Description based on surrogate.
Creation/Production Credits Note
Director of photography, Bernd Meiners ; editor, Dawn Logsdon ; music, Tibor Szemzö.
Participant/Performer Note
Rupert Everett, narrator.
Other Forms
Also issued on DVD.
Technical Details
VHS.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival, 2000: Director's Award, Best Documentary (Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
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