Eldorado – Alles, was die Nazis hassen (2023)

Eldorado – Alles, was die Nazis hassen (2023). Eldorado – Alles, was die Nazis hassen: Directed by Benjamin Cantu, Matt Lambert. With Eren Güvercin, Eli Otto Kappo, Antonio Lallo, Livia Matthes. A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler's rise to power.

“A quote from the movie – u0026quot;The pace of change is a source of frustration for just about everybody. If youu0026#39;re a radical, then change is happening much too slowly for you. On the other side, if youu0026#39;re a conservative, youu0026#39;re watching everything that gives your life depth and meaning washed away. And its that experience of being threatened by this change that gives fascists fertile ground in which to spread their poisonous ideas.u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eExcellent filmmaking – documentary like (with historical footage), but also with storytellers, and some very moving love stories at the centre.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLot of food for thought for the queer community about how an idyllic period can overnight turn into horrific devastation. And also about where our priorities lie – to be foolhardy and to go along with evil only to be fatally betrayed like Ernst Rohm; or to make space for oneself, and a whole lot of others, and to grow authentically, like Magnus Hirshfield ? And in some irony, Rohm was perhaps more overt about his homosexuality than Hirshfield.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso about how redemption is mostly an inside job – because even several decades after the war, the queer community still faced legal persecution in W. Germany. (Not that Alan Turing had it any better, on the other side)”