Different From The Others (Anders als die Andern) is a German film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. The story for Anders als die Andern was written by Richard Oswald with the assistance of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science), with the aim of presenting the story as a polemic against the then current laws under Germany's Paragraph 175. Paragraph 175 made homosexuality a punishable offense, causing many men to be placed in the same position as the character portrayed by Veidt.
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| - Different From The Others (Anders als die Andern) is a German film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. The story for Anders als die Andern was written by Richard Oswald with the assistance of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science), with the aim of presenting the story as a polemic against the then current laws under Germany's Paragraph 175. Paragraph 175 made homosexuality a punishable offense, causing many men to be placed in the same position as the character portrayed by Veidt.
- Different from the Others (German: Anders als die Andern) is a 1919 feature film from the Weimar Republic. The film was directed and produced by Richard Oswald who also co-wrote the film with Magnus Hitschfeld. Hirschfeld had partially funded the film through his Institute for Sexual Sciences. The film stars Conrad Veidt and Fritz Schulz in the leading roles with Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel and Magnus Hirschfeld in supporting roles.
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| - Different From The Others (Anders als die Andern) is a German film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. The story for Anders als die Andern was written by Richard Oswald with the assistance of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science), with the aim of presenting the story as a polemic against the then current laws under Germany's Paragraph 175. Paragraph 175 made homosexuality a punishable offense, causing many men to be placed in the same position as the character portrayed by Veidt. The cinematography was by Max Fassbender, who two years previously had worked on Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, one of the earliest cinematic treatments of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of narcissism, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Director Richard Oswald later became a director of some considerable note, as did his son Gert. Veidt of course became a major film star the year after Anders was released, in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Anders als die Andern is noteworthy as one of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuals in the cinema. Censorship laws enacted in reaction to films like Anders als die Andern eventually restricted viewing of this movie to doctors and medical researchers, and prints of the film were among the many "decadent" works burned by the Nazis after their regime came to power in 1933. Some portions of the film have survived, and can be viewed today as an invaluable glimpse at both cinematic history and homosexual history.
- Different from the Others (German: Anders als die Andern) is a 1919 feature film from the Weimar Republic. The film was directed and produced by Richard Oswald who also co-wrote the film with Magnus Hitschfeld. Hirschfeld had partially funded the film through his Institute for Sexual Sciences. The film stars Conrad Veidt and Fritz Schulz in the leading roles with Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel and Magnus Hirschfeld in supporting roles. The film was one of the first to show a sympathetic portrayal of a homosexual relationship in the history of the cinema. Censorship laws were enacted due to the release of films such as Different from the Others, with viewings being restricted to doctors and medical researchers until 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany with all but one copy of the film being burned. The surviving copy of the film is incomplete with the plot held together by additional inter-titles and still images. The film is based around Paragraph 175 (known formally as §175 StGB), a provision of the German Criminal Code from May 15, 1871 to March 10, 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime and, in early revisions, also criminalized bestiality, forms of prostitution and underage sexual abuse. 140,000 men were convicted under the law, which also applied to homosexual women who were targeted less.
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