Different from the Others (1919)
With Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel, Magnus Hirschfeld, Anita Berber, Fritz Schulz, Leo Connard, Ilse Tasso, Ernst Pittschau
Directed by Richard Oswald
Different from the Others (German: Anders als die Andern) is a silent German melodramatic film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. It was directed by Richard Oswald, and the story co-written by Oswald and Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science. The film was intended as a polemic against the then-current laws under Germany's Paragraph 175, which made homosexuality a criminal offense. It was one of the first sympathetic portrayals of gay men in cinema.
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