Die Konsequenz

Jrgen Prochnow Ernst Hannawald Walo Lnd Edith Volkmann Erwin Kohlund Hans Irle Erwin Parker Alexander Ziegler Werner Schwuchow HansMichael Rehberg Elisabeth Fricker Hans Putz Wolf Gaudlitz Thomas Haerin Carsten Neumann Franz Kollasch Alexis von Hagemeister Jan Groth Gerold Nlli

Gay actor Martin Kurath Prochnow who is in prison develops a friendship with Thomas Manzoni Hannawald, the 15yearold son of the prison warden Lnd. The two fall in love and they both yearn for Kuraths release. This triggers intense indignation in their surroundings. After Kurath is released a year later, Thomas accompanied by Kurath, tells his parents he is a homosexual. His father tells him to leave and never return. Kurath and Thomas move in together and Thomas enrolls in school. Thomas father, however, then has him arrested and condemned to a brutal reformatory. Kurath obtains a fake passport and poses as a psychology doctoral candidate and helps Thomas escape with him to Germany. They are betrayed by a German homosexual friend of Kuraths who insists, in Kuraths absence, that Thomas become his lover in order to obtain a German residency permit. Thomas does so, but then refuses to sleep with the betrayer, is kicked out and prostitutes himself. Broken by these experiences, he voluntarily returns to the reformatory. When he reachesand is released, he is so psychologically damaged that, despite reunion with Kurath, he attempts suicide and is committed to a psychiatric hospital. He escapes and the film ends with a TV announcement that the police are looking for him and that the public should, if approaching him, treat him gently, as he is very depressed and confused.The novel Die Konsequenz, which reads like the diary of Martin Kurath, is set in 1974. The Swiss Alexander Ziegler processed his personal experiences in the book. He himself served two and a half years in prison for seducing an innocent underaged person to unnatural sexual acts. ........

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