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Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 07/23/2002 Format: DVD - Black and White,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Letterbox for TV Audio Tracks: English, French, German Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 21 mins Studio: New Yorker Video Members Wishing: 12 Genres: History, Military & War, Social History, Gender Issues, Politics & Government

Academy-award winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman direct this harrowing, lyrical look at the persecution of homosexuals during the Third Reich. German historian and member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Klaus Muller interviews the dozen or so surviving victims, now frail and wizened, who recount their experiences. Jewish resistance fighter Gad Beck recalls how he posed as a Hitler Youth in an ultimately vain attempt at saving his lover. One man was freed from a sentence at Dachau only to be interned again a Buchenwald. Another recalls hearing, in the distance, a "singing forest" -- the sound of gays bound and tortured by Nazis in a local grove. Epstein and Friedman fashion a layered narrative consisting not only of interviews but also archival footage depicting background life in Weimar Germany. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Rupert Everett - Narrator

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's fascinating documentary about gays who helped fight the Nazis, Paragraph 175, comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English, German, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by both directors, as well as the film's producers. Interviews that did not make the final cut, and the theatrical trailer round out this excellent release from New Yorker. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide