A love story forged in hell — where survival means hiding who you are.
Max and Rudy are a couple living a decadent lifestyle in pre-war Berlin, enjoying the nightlife and hedonistic parties: cocaine, orgies, and drag shows. After the rise of the Nazi party to power, Max is caught and sent to a concentration camp, where gay prisoners wear the pink triangle and have a status inferior even to Jewish prisoners. Max disguises himself as a Jew and wears the yellow star, hoping that his sexual orientation will not be revealed. Within the daily oppression of the concentration camp, Max meets Horst, a fellow prisoner to whom he confesses his true identity. Soon a forbidden love develops between them.
Acting
Michael Aloni's devastating transformation from hedonist to hollowed survivor.
Direction
Moshe Kepten makes the unspeakable intimate and unbearably human.
Costume
The pink triangle as both mark of shame and queer symbol reclaimed.
Director
Moshe Kepten
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Martin Sherman's 1979 play that helped reclaim the pink triangle as a queer symbol of resistance.
The film depicts the often-erased Nazi persecution of gay men, who were sometimes re-imprisoned after liberation since homosexuality remained criminalized.
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