Herr Schmidt & Herr Friedrich
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The love story of two older men, Herr Schmidt & Herr Friedrich is also, in many ways, about the history of the once separated and now reunited Germany. When Kurt Schmidt and Wilfried Friedrich met in 1976 Berlin, they fell in love instantly. But the Berlin Wall separated them - Kurt lived in the West, Wilfried in the East. Kept apart physically, they communicated through letters while under constant surveillance by the East German secret police. Now, years later, they live happily together and recount their story, revealing at the same time the details of their petit-bourgeois existence in the new Germany.
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Shown at New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Features) May 31 - June 10, 2001.
35mm
dialogue German
subtitled English
