In post-war Germany Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. Due to paragraph 175, his desire for freedom is systematically destroyed. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cellmate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts as revulsion, grows into something called love.
Winner of the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
Grosse Freiheit
2021
16 years
117 min.
Fiction
Austria, Germany
Austria, Germany, international festivals, awarded films, love relationship, LGBTQIA+, prison
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