Different from the Others

Different From The Others German Anders als die Andern is a German film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schnzel.

Veidt portrays a successful violinist, Paul Krner, who falls in love with one of his male students. A sleazy extortionist threatens to expose Krner as a homosexual. Flashbacks show us how Krner became aware of his orientation and tried first to change it, then to understand it. Krner and the extortionist end up in court, where the judge is sympathetic to the violinist, but when the scandal becomes public, Krners career is ruined and he is driven to suicide.The film opens with Paul Krner Conrad Veidt reading the daily newspaper obituaries, which are filled with vaguely worded and seemingly inexplicable suicides. Krner, however, knows that Paragraph 175 is hidden behind them all that it hangs over German homosexuals like the Sword of Damocles. ........

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