As Actor, As Director, As Writer
A Virus Knows No Morals
1986
4.5
Rosa von Praunheim
Acting
Birth date
November 25, 1942
Birth place
Riga, Latvia
Biography
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, is a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
Featured in
As Director, As Writer
Horror Vacui
1984
5.0
As Actor
The Bite
1984
5.0
As Director, As Writer
City of Lost Souls
1983
4.7
As Director, As Writer
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979
4.0
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Tally Brown, New York
1979
5.0
As Director, As Writer
Berliner Bettwurst
1975
4.0
As Actor
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975
5.2
As Actor, As Director
Von Rosa von Praunheim
1968
5.0