Paragraph 175 [videorecording] / a Telling Pictures production ; produced and directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman ; director of research/associate producer, Klaus Muller ; producers, Michael Ehrenzweig, Janet Cole ; writer, Sharon Wood.
Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: April 16, 2002. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Special features: Director's filmography and profiles; web links. Rupert Everett, narrator.
Summary:
Historian Klaus Muller 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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