https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1171
Heiner Carow’s film Coming out is legendary not only because of its premiere on the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. It is above all the first and only feature film of the GDR’s film studio Defa devoted to homosexual relationships. The making of the film was possible due to slow socio-political changes in the GDR and in the same time Coming out is a visual interpretation of those changes. The meanings of the film are not limited only to identifying problems related to repressed identity. Speaking on behalf of the sexual minority, claiming its right to self-realization in accordance with its identity, the director Carow criticizes the entire GDR society of the late 80s with its hypocrisy and passivity. The article recalls the interpretative contexts of the film, especially in relation to the ideological and social pressure to which the protagonists are subjected.
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