2021 · drama · lgbtq · prison
Great Freedom
Directed by Sebastian Meise1h 56m2021
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
Our read: Great Freedom (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · lgbtq · prison entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / lgbtq, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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