Coming out / DEFA Studio für Spielfilme, Gruppe Babelsberg ; Buch Wolfram Witt ; Kamera, Martin Schlesinger ; Regie, Heiner Carow ; Produktion, Horst Hartwig
- Uniform Title
- Coming out (Motion picture : 1989)
- Published
- Amherst : DEFA Film Library, U Mass, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
plastic
DVD 4 3/4 in. - Additional Creators
- Carow, Heiner, 1929-1997, Carow, Stefan, Freihof, Matthias, 1961-, Manzel, Dagmar, Kummer, Dirk, DEFA. Studio für Spielfilme, Icestorm International, Inc, and Gruppe Babelsberg
- Language Note
- In German with optional English subtitles.
- Summary
- Tanya and Philip work together and are both dedicated teachers. They become close and move in together. Tanya is very much in love and gets pregnant. Things get complicated for Philipp when he meets Matthias, however, as they fall passionately in love, Philipp struggles with his identity and what to do; it is hard to overcome years of repressing his sexuality.
- Subject(s)
- Gay people—Germany (East)—Drama
- Gay teachers—Germany (East)—Drama
- Closeted gay people—Germany (East)—Drama
- Foreign films—Germany (East)
- Foreign films
- Homosexuality in motion pictures
- Gay people—Germany—Drama
- Films étrangers—Allemagne (Est)
- Films étrangers
- Homosexualité au cinéma
- Closeted gay people
- Gay teachers
- Gay people
- Germany
- Germany (East)
- Genre(s)
- Sound Characteristics
- mono
optical
digital - Digital File Characteristics
- DVD video
video file - Note
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
"East Germany's only gay feature film premiered the night the Berlin Wall opened"--container.
"New digitally restored HD transfers & revised English subtitles"--container back.
A DEFA production originally released as a motion picture in Germany in 1989.
DVD-ROM features (PDF files, in English): Biographies & filmographies -- Timeline : the gay and lesbian movement in East Germany -- "Coming out in East Germany," / by Kyle Frackman (Univ. of British Columbia) = "DEFA's Coming out," / by former DEFA dramaturg Dieter Wolf -- "Silver Bear, Golden Cadillac : an interview with Dirk Kummer" -- Teaching guide / by Kyle Frackman and Skyler Arndt-Briggs.
Special features: PDF files; The other love (GDR, 1998, dirs. Helmut Kissling & Axel Otten (35 min., color, doc., EN ST); Interview with Matthias Freihof (Germany, 2020, dir. Bernd Sahling (17 min., color, EN ST); Interview with Dagmar Manzel (Germany, 2014, dirs. Ferdinand Teubner, Katrin Teubner (20 min., color, EN ST); About the DEFA Film Library; credits. - Creation/Production Credits Note
- Screenplay. Wolfram Witt ; dramaturgy, Erika Richter ; camera, Martin Schlesinger ; director, Heiner Carow ; editor, Evelyn Carow ; music, Stefan Carow.
- Participant/Performer Note
- Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer.
- Technical Details
- Access to DVD PDF files requires a computer with a DVD-ROM drive and appropriate software.
DVD-R. - Awards
- Winner, Berlin International Film Festival 1990: Silver Bear award-Heiner Carow; Teddy-Best Feature Film-Heiner Carow.
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