“I'd love to blow up the whole cinema with this filth!” Sinister threats like this were commonplace in the letters to the editor section of the Landshuter Zeitung newspaper in the spring of 1969. The reason for this was Peter Fleischmann's feature film debut. When 20-year-old homosexual Abram returns to his home village, the farmers tease him, his own mother calls him a “dirty pig,” and a pogrom-like atmosphere develops. For a long time, he tried to ignore the malicious mockery of his fellow villagers. Hannelore, who is reviled as the “village whore,” is the only person who shows him understanding and affection. Meanwhile, the villagers' prejudices escalate into outright hatred. When word gets around that Hannelore is pregnant by Abram, the situation escalates. The story of a village that gets carried away in a witch hunt against a young gay mechanic. It was one of the first plays to seriously address the issue of homosexuality and the resulting upheaval in a bigoted village community.

Print from the collection of Kino im Blauen Salon (HfG KA)