The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. ...
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Title: The Einstein of Sex (1999)
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| Kai Schumann | ... | Magnus Hirschfeld | |
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Friedel von Wangenheim | ... | Magnus Hirschfeld |
| Ben Becker | ... | Adolf Brand | |
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Wolfgang Völz | ... | Polizeipräsident |
| Otto Sander | ... | Prof. Steinach | |
| Meret Becker | ... | Arbeiterin | |
| Monika Hansen | ... | Gräfin | |
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Gerd Lukas Storzer | ... | Baron von Teschenberg |
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Olaf Drauschke | ... | Karl Giese |
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Tima die Göttliche | ... | Dorchen |
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Gerry Wolff | ... | Onkel von Hirschfeld |
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Christa Pasemann | ... | Tante Gesche |
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The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s. Written by Gonz30
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16 March 2000 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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which was another title rosa entertained the possibility of using. when he announced it was forthcoming at a screening in LA I distinctly recall the collective gasp of the public, in anticipation: the subject seemed like the perfect one for rosa... but ... the film turned out nicht so gut, a big disappointment. actually I didn't see the whole thing but only walked out really cause I was visiting a strange city when it happened to stumble upon a chance to see one of its first screenings in the US, in Miami, where winsome elian gonzales was just about to be snatched from his home and riots were about to ensue.my feeling was he rushed into production on this one. it needed more rewrites to be the crowning glory of rosa his fan's tentatively but erroneously anticipated... and I wondered why he turned it over to the writers he chose rather than write it himself.