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Aroview: An uneasy delve into past atrocities, this bitter-tasting but necessary document of Nazi war crimes goes beyond the oft-told persecution of Jews to recount the Third Reich’s legislation against gays.
Drafting its title from the penal code’s official moniker, the film uncovers numerous victims, horrific tales, and a handful of survivors now well into their elderly years. A chilling remembrance, but also a balanced one, with the wartime homosexuality – from gay resistance fighters to closeted Nazis – broached from both sides of the battlefield. Narrated by Rupert Everett.
NZ International Film Festival 2001
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