The Einstein of Sex
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Directed by | Rosa von Praunheim |
Written by | Chris Kraus Valentin Passoni |
Starring | Friedel von Wangenheim Ben Becker Wolfgang Völz |
Cinematography | Elfi Mikesch |
Edited by | Mike Shephard |
Music by | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
Release date | March 16, 2000 |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (German: Der Einstein des Sex) is a 1999 German film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The plot follows the life of the Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a sexologist and gay socialist. In 1897, Hirschfeld founded the first gay political group in history.
In the film three of Hirschfeld's closest friends are portrayed: Baron Hermann von Teschenberg, Karl Giese and Dorchen (a transsexual). They establish the first Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin in 1919 and try to keep the institute open during the rise of the Third Reich in the early 1930s.
Although inspired by Hirschfeld's life, the film is a work of fiction containing invented characters and incidents and attributing motives and sentiments to Hirschfeld and others on the basis of little or no historical evidence.
Cast
- Friedel von Wangenheim as Dr. M. Hirschfeld
- Ben Becker as Adolf Brand
- Wolfgang Völz as Polizeipräsident
- Otto Sander as Professor Steinach
- Meret Becker as Arbeiterin
- Monika Hansen as Gräfin
- Gerd Lukas Storzer as Baron von Teschenberg
- Olaf Drauschke as Karl Giese
- Tima die Göttliche as Dorchen
- Harald Glitz as Hochzeitsgast
- Ulrich Jackwit as Geheimrat
- Kai Schuhmann as Magnus Hirschfeld (young)
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- 1999 films
- 1990s biographical films
- 1999 LGBT-related films
- German biographical films
- Films directed by Rosa von Praunheim
- German films
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Films set in Berlin
- Gay-related films
- Transgender-related films
- Films set in the 1890s
- Films set in the 1900s
- Films set in the 1910s
- Films set in the 1920s
- Films set in the 1930s
- Biographical films about physicians
- German LGBT-related films
- Biographical film stubs
- LGBT-related film stubs