Different From The Others
Kino VideoRichard Oswald's Different from the Others is the earliest film in this new Kino collection, and is also the most unequivocally sympathetic towards what many considered 'an unnatural vice.' A moving tragedy of a violin virtuoso (Conrad Veidt, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) in the grip of a malicious blackmailer, Different was also an impassioned work of propaganda, later banned and burned by the Nazis. Commissioned by sexologist Magnus Hirschfield (who appears as himself), the film was a cry out against Germany¹s notorious 'Paragraph 175,' which slapped prison sentences upon thousands of homosexuals. While Hirschfield¹s appeal to the idea of a 'third sex' might seem dated, the unapologetic rationality of the film¹s argument is arrestingly contemporary.
DVD Features
Silent movie with English IntertitlesInformation
- Director: Richard Oswald
- Producer: Emil Linke
- Writer: Richard Oswald
- Writer: Magnus Hirschfeld
- Length: 50 mins.
- Rating: NR
- Released: Dec 28 2004
- Production Year: 1919
- TLA SKU: 651335
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC Code: 738329039127
- Catalog #: DV1006092
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In-House Review - Sep 11 2007
