Summer Cinema — Great Freedom

DEU + CZ sub­ti­tles
In Ger­many after WWII, the lib­er­a­tion by the Allies did not mean free­dom for every­one. Hans (Franz Rogows­ki) has been found guilty of some­thing the gov­ern­ment deems a crime: he is gay. Under the 19^th-cen­tu­ry Ger­man penal code known as Para­graph 175, homo­sex­u­al­i­ty is grounds for impris­on­ment, and Hans — over the course of mul­ti­ple decades — is spied on and repeat­ed­ly jailed sole­ly for his sex­u­al­i­ty. As he returns to prison, again and again, Hans devel­ops an ever-clos­er rela­tion­ship with his cell­mate Vik­tor (Georg Friedrich), a con­vict­ed mur­der­er serv­ing a life sentence.