男性の同性愛を禁じる刑法175条が施行されていた、第2次世界大戦後のドイツ。ハンスは自身の性的指向を理由に投獄され、殺人犯ヴィクトールと同じ房になる。ヴィクトールは175条違反者のハンスを嫌悪するが、腕に掘られた番号から、彼がナチスの強制収容所からこの刑務所に送られてきたことを知る。何度懲罰房に入れられても己の信念を曲げないハンスと、刑務所内の振る舞いを熟知するヴィクトールの間に、次第に深い絆が生まれていく。
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監督: Sebastian Meise
脚本: Thomas Reider / Sebastian Meise
音楽: Peter Brötzmann / Nils Petter Molvær
制作: Oliver Neumann / Sabine Moser / Benny Drechsel
撮影監督: クリステル・フルニエ
制作会社: FreibeuterFilm / Rohfilm
It's curious to think that it is only fairly recently (1994!) that West Germany abolished it's odious "paragraph 175" legislation that imposed criminal penalties on homosexual men. Franz Rogowski is "Hoffman", a serial cottager who is frequently imprisoned for breaching this law. The film tells the rather bleak and depressing tale of his life spent behind bars: of his loves whilst there - notably with "Oskar" (Thomas Prenn) and "Leo" (Anton von Lucke); of his developing friendship with the straight and initially hostile "Viktor" (Georg Friedrich) and of the brutality of the prison system that reduced his quality of life to little more than that of street vermin. Rogowski (who reminds me a little of Joaquin Phoenix) is on good form as the story pans out; his character runs an whole gamut of emotions from love, despair, frustration and - very occasionally - joy, he even thinks of breaking out! By the time he is declared "legal", the character has become so institutionalised that freedom is nowhere near as attractive as he had expected it to be. It's not an easy film to watch, this one - made more potent by the fact the for much of the period he spent incarcerated, there were American soldiers guarding the jail too! The pace is slow, and the narrative switches timelines from time to time, so I needed to concentrate, but it is worth it if you are remotely interested in the ordeals of a man jailed just for being gay!
