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Synopsis
Dir: Sebastian Meise. German-language Drama. From the late 1940s until it's legalization in the late 1960s, a man (Franz Rogowski) convicted of homosexuality meets and befriends a convicted murderer (Georg Friedrich) during his years in and out of prison.
Content elements
- Frequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs, some in an aggressive context.
- Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - no blood, little detail
- Frequent breast, buttock, male and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
- Frequent portrayals and depictions of sexual activity - breast, buttock, male genital, and female frontal nudity and explicit detail
- Frequent portrayals of alcohol, tobacco use in a recreational context; infrequent portrayals of intravenous and illegal drug abuse - some detail
Thematic elements
- Love and acceptance
- Survival
- Post-war Germany
Classification rationale
Rated R for explicit sexual activity
Classification date
January 26, 2022Was this page helpful?
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