Westler
East of the Wall
Berlin in the mid-eighties. Felix lives in West Berlin, Thomas in the East. They're smitten with each other, and try to enjoy the few hours they have together. As the feelings grow so do the doubts however; The Berlin Wall appears to be an insurmountable hurdle. The only way out would appear to be an escape to the West via Prague. Wieland Speck's WESTLER is a classic of queer cinema, known for its rugged beauty and historic footage from the former Tränenpalast border crossing. Partly captured on 8mm camera, the material was then smuggled over the tightly guarded border.
DVD | Farbe / colour
Wieland Speck, Egbert Hörmann
Klemens Becker
Herbert Weinand, Jo Schablowsky
Engelbert Rehm
Sigurd Rachmann, Rainer Strecker, Andy Lucas, Christoph Eichhorn, Frank Redieß, Zazie de Paris, Harry Baer
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
Jürgen Pohl
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10961 Berlin
Germany
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Wieland Speck - – born 1951 in Freiburg. He's an author, filmmaker and curator of the Berlinale Panorama programme section. The focus of his early works was on male emancipation and homosexual identity. He is due to speak at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus within the framework of the “Processes of Emancipation“ mastertalk.
DAVID, MONTGOMERY UND ICH (1980)
DAS GERÄUSCH RASCHER ERLÖSUNG (1982)
NOVEMBER (1989)
ZIMMER 303 (1991)
ESCAPE TO LIFE – DIE ERIKA UND KLAUS MANN-STORY (2000)