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In big cities discrimination against homosexuality and gay way of life is not a big issue anymore. Gay mayors and football club association presidents are no longer colourful exceptions to the rule, rather they have become an expression o f normality. In rural areas, however, the definition of what is normal is quite diffe- rent. Out here, normal means a husband, wife and children "the nuclear family". In the country, expressions such as "poofter" are still common parlance and mothers are ashamed if their sons fail to bring home a girlfriend. Hartmut, Richard, Stefan and Uwe are all gay men who live in the country. They punctuate their rural existence with brief but regular sojourns in Berlin, Zurich or Thailand. These four men have learned to live with the fact, that their lifestyle is met with a volley of abuse from their heterosexual friends and acquain- tances in the church choir and at the local pub. Jochen Hick's film provides an insight into a largely unknown world. The audience follows the lives o f the protagonists via the comments o f their heterosexual environment. Expressed in the local dialect, the often comical and regular surprising comments on homosexuality demonstrate just how deep the gulf is between what is supposedly normal and what comprises a deviation from the norm. The film provides a bitterly comical portrait o f a hetero- sexual perspective on gay men in Germany's country towns. |
Founder, owner and producer of GALERIA ALASKA PRODUCTIONS.
Film studies at Hamburg, Academy o f Fine Arts (degree in visual
communications/film), studies at University of Florence, Bologna
and Hamburg. Numerous credits in film and tv productions as AD,
DP, sound engineer and editor. Screenwriter and journalist for
various tv-stations. Some of Jochen Hick's film titles as director
& screenwriter are: |
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Cast With Crew Writer, Camera, Director Editor Florian Kohler
Assistant Director
Music
Assistants Assistant Editor Andre Stever
Sound Editor
Sound Mixing
Production Manager Stuttgart
Production Office Hamburg
Research
Historical Counselling
Supervising / Counselling Producer A production of
with the support of Technical Information • Documentary |
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