VIFF Promotions of International / Foreign films to our subscribers
Starting in March our society will offer a monthly promo code for ticket discounts to a Foreign / International film to our subscribers on our mail list. The selected film will be part of the year round films programmed by the VIFF team
Synopsis – Great Freedom
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans (Franz Rogowski, from Undine and Transit) is imprisoned again and again under Paragraph 175, a law criminalizing homosexuality. Over the course of a quarter century, he develops an unlikely yet tender bond with his cellmate Viktor (Georg Friedrich), a convicted murderer, a junkie and an avowed homophobe.
Without these actors, a film so uncompromisingly true to its subject would wither on the vine. With these two, however, the subtle play of feeling between them is gripping.
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