Fire Under Your Ass
About the life and death of gay men in Berlin
- Rosa von Praunheim
- 52m
- May 17, 1990
Overview
The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less enthusiastic about safe sex, let alone safe sex 'with Mother Earth', which Allen Ginsburg envisions for dealing with an AIDS-like contaminated earth. In Berlin, the gay capital of Germany, Praunheim encounters a party atmosphere during his research. "There's no one who thinks safe sex is good," say some of them, yet they plead for reason, "you also have to have the freedom to fuck yourself to death," is the extreme response of the boys, who do not want their painstakingly acquired identity as gays to be reduced to an AIDS identity through voluntary restrictions. Praunheim has also tracked down politically active people in Germany, but according to his observations, they are identified with the unpleasant truth and avoided according to the Cassandra principle.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 17, 1990
- Original language
- German
- Production
- WDR,Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion
- Director
- Rosa von Praunheim
- Writer
- Rosa von Praunheim
- Producer
- Michael Lupetin,Rosa von Praunheim
- Cinematography
- Elfi Mikesch
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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