The movie, based on Christa Winsloe's play Gestern und heute, was so influential that it was remade in 1958. Mädchen in Uniform ('Girls in Uniform'), 1931: While homosexuality was simply alluded to in the aforementioned flicks, it was on full display in Mädchen in Uniform, the tale of a boarding school girl who falls for her teacher. Die Büchse der Pandora ('Pandora's Box'), 1929: Actress Alice Roberts reportedly wasn't keen on playing tuxedo-wearing lesbian Countess Augusta Geschwitz in this pre-talkie feature, but she did anyway, pulling off the role of a woman lusting after Louise Brooks's Lulu, a woman on her way toward the end of her wits, and Jack the Ripper's blade.ģ. Michael ('Michael'), 1924: Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Mikaël, and directed by legendary silent movie filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, this Weimer Republic-era picture, also called Mikaël, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex, ruffled a few feathers for its frank, sympathetic portrayal of a painter who falls for one of his male models, but mostly the critics were either too shy to discuss it or it went over their heads.Ģ. Here, 11 gay movies, from the dramatic to the comedic, from the absurd to the touching, from the Weimer Republic to unified Berlin, straight out of Germany.ġ. Germany has been churning out gay hits for nearly a century.
