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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
90
The definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.
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.
90
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
It's astonishing, and moving.
70
Evokes feelings of fascination and heartbreak, as well as a sense of disbelief.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Illuminating, poignant and heartening.
90
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
At once admirable and deeply unsettling.
75
A worthy addition to the growing canon of Holocaust documentaries.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
An exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact.