left to right: (characters) Magnus & Baron

Not a documentary but a beautiful and entertaining narrative feature, The Einstein of Sex  combines an almost Hollywood-lush approach to screen biography with the trademark sardonic humor, unusual tableaus and sometimes sexually explicit visuals of long-time bad-boy gay filmmaker Rosa Von Pronheim. 

Vividly recreating Germany and the homosexual underworld of Berlin at the turn of the last century, The Einstein of Sex  brings to life the story of pioneering gay-rights activist  Magnus Hirschfeld. 

director, "Einstein of Sex" & "Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?"

It depicts Hirschfield's own personal journey of a Jewish gay man coming to terms with himself, and his remarkable decision to make homosexuality a political cause cÈlËbre by fighting existing 19th century German anti-sodomy laws. Requited and unrequited loves, a fiercely loyal transgendered housekeeper and a neo-fascist gay nemesis are just some of the characters who populate the film and Hirschfield's own budding circle of free-thinking gay men and women. 

While the The Einstein of Sex  dramatically shows  how the Nazis tragically obliterated Magnus Hirschfield's life's work at the dawn of World War II, he is remembered and honored today as the "forefather" of the contemporary gay rights movement.  In German with English subtitles.

9:00 PM Screening at the Colony Theater $10

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