7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Category: FilmScreening DEFA Films: COMING OUT
Clinton Street Theater
2522 Southeast Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
DEFA Films: COMING OUT
WED. June 13, 2018 – 7:00 PM
GDR, 1989, 108 min, Color
Director: Heiner Carow
Cast:Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer |
As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him in order to live within the “norm.” He meets a shy girl who falls for him, and soon the couple is sharing an apartment. But Philipp cannot deny his passionate desire for a young man. After years of repressing his sexuality, he finally accepts himself for who he truly is.
Hailed as the first and only feature film about gay life ever produced in communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, November 9, 1989.