Film · Drama, History
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000)
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.
- Director
- Rosa von Praunheim
- Writers
- Valentin Passoni, Chris Kraus
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Release date
- March 16, 2000
- Original title
- Der Einstein des Sex
Cast
- Friedel von WangenheimMagnus Hirschfeld (alt)
Kai SchumannMagnus Hirschfeld (jung)
Ben BeckerAdolf Brand
Wolfgang VölzPolizeipräsident
Otto SanderProfessor Steinach
Meret BeckerArbeiterin- Olaf DrauschkeKarl Giese
Peter EhrlichRichard- Angelika MannSängerin
- Christa PasemannTante Gesche
Monika HansenGräfin- Gerd Lukas StorzerHermann von Teschenberg
Gerry WolffOnkel von Hirschfeld- Tima die GöttlicheDorchen
Harald GlitzHochzeitsgast
