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An exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact.
90
The definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.
90
It's astonishing, and moving.
90
At once admirable and deeply unsettling.
90
Speaks so eloquently for itself, there's not much more for me to do than urge you to get over to the Nuart for the one week it's playing in Los Angeles.
88
It's an eye opener to how quickly a society can switch from being open and tolerant to pointing fingers -- and worse -- at those deemed different.
88
Soberly, deeply effective.
83
Perhaps the most disturbing fact in the film comes in the text at the end: Paragraph 175 remained on the books in both halves of postwar Germany until the late 1960s.
80
Illuminating, poignant and heartening.
80
The tales told are bitter, horrific in detail...yet often leavened with irony and humor. Rupert Everett's low-key narration serves the film well.
