Zürich in the mid-1950s: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a member of the gay organization Der Kreis. There he gets to know the transvestite star Röbi Rapp - and immediately falls head over heels in love with him. Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the organisation which in the whole Europe is seen as the symbol of gay emancipation. Ernst finds himself torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality for Röbi it is about his first serious love relationship. A relationship... which will last a lifetime. From the present the film looks back to the time when the Mother of all European homosexual organisations had its high point until it fell apart. While the repression against homosexuals became increasingly more intense in Zurich two young and very different men fight for their love and - together with their friends - for gay rights. [show more]
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Gay-themed docudrama directed by Stefan Haupt. The film tells the story of Ernst Ostertag (Matthias Hungerbühler), a young gay schoolteacher working in laissez-faire Zurich, who, with the help of underground publication 'The Circle', meets and falls in love with Robi Rapp (Sven Schelker), a young drag artist, while exploring the city's gay social scene. However, when several gay men are murdered in the city, the normally liberal-minded authorities become suspicious of the homosexual community and attempt to shut down their only means of communication...
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