Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity

Neurosia 50 Years of Perversity German Neurosia 50 Jahre pervers is a 1992 German film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is a mockumentary, an autobiography of Rosa von Praunheim, framed as murder mystery in which the director is the victim.

Gesine begins to investigate upon the dirt of von Praunheim notoriously hedonistic life. She insinuates herself into von Praunheims private life, duping his mother into providing access to his personal belongings. The mother flips through a photo album commenting Ive survived two world wars living with him is the third. The reporter retraces the earliest efforts of an oeuvre encompassing nearly 50 films and recalls the part Rosa von Praunheim played in the birth of the German gay movement in the 1970s. She also interviews von Praunheims acquaintances and shows short clips from Rosas old movies. Her main aim is to provide sensational and shocking details from Rosas life. Initially disgusted at the depravity she unearths, the reporter reads his love letters and hate mail, traces clues and anonymous tipoffs, prowls public toilets and other seedy hangouts, talking to the deceaseds neighbors, exlovers, stars of his films and bizarre family members. Some of the eccentric menagerie refuse to talk. Others are only too willing to divulge personal information, like Evelyn Kunneke, who claims von Praunheims homosexuality was an attentionseeking device and that he really loved her.Gesine follows von Praunheims tracks to New York and meets a former flame he recalls Rosas horrifying eating habits and his appalling practice of playing Bavarian folk tunes on his foreskin. Gesine becomes increasingly dedicated to her assignment and possibly even more sympathetic to her subjects cause. However soon after she promises viewers details of von Praunheims affairs with prominent businessmen and highranking government, church and military officials. von Praunheims diaries containing the evidence vanish and the series is axed due to dismal ratings. Gesine perseveres regardless, eventually discovering the truth. It turns out that nearly everybody had some reason to kill Rosa. Finally Gesine discovers Rosa at a boat where he is kept prisoner by some of his old enemies. She frees him, and the

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