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Einstein of Sex (The)
- Director: Rosa von Praunheim
- Writer: Chris Kraus; Valentin Passoni
- Producer: Elke Peters; Dietmar Schings
CGiii Comment
America thought they had the first sexologist with Kinsey - but, yes - surprise, surprise - it's true, Europe had one before they did.
The acting is so bad that it veers into comedy.
The direction is plain bizarre...but, not in Praunheim's usual avant-garde way.
Plainly, he has no idea how to direct a mainstream script - it is cumbersome and ridiculously jumpy - accompanied by an incredibly immature eye.
Stick to the weirder side of film-making - at least (then) no sense doesn't come over as nonsense.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
Cast & Characters
Friedel von Wangenheim as Dr. M. Hirschfeld;
Ben Becker as Adolf Brand;
Wolfgang Volz as Polizeipr'sident;
Otto Sander as Professor Steinach;
Meret Becker as Arbeiterin;
Monika Hansen as Grafin;
Gerd Lukas Storzer as Baron von Teschenberg;
Olaf Drauschke as Karl Giese;
Gerry Wolff as Magnus Hirschfelds Onkel;
Christa Pasemann as Tante Gesche;
Peter Ehrlich as Richard;
Andreas Niederau-Kaiser as Glatzkopf;
Angelika Mann as S'ngerin;
Sven Gerhard as Preussischer Offizier;
Kai Schumann as Magnus Hirschfeld