![]() ![]() Incorporated into the German criminal code in the 1870s, the law was expanded and viciously enforced by the Nazis shockingly, a version remained on the West German books for decades after the war. It’s 1968 and the West German law known as Paragraph 175 prohibits sex between men, with offenders subject to imprisonment. Other men soon enter the bathroom and with shared, feverish purpose and practiced gestures, they and Hans (the indispensable Franz Rogowski) have sex, a basic human act, if one that challenges the state. ![]() He paces, occasionally drawing on a cigarette, and at one point stands in the open doorway looking out, as if waiting for someone. A trim mustache frames his sensual mouth, and his biceps are set off by his short sleeves. Fit and jaggedly handsome, with short hair and sideburns, he looks coiled with impatience, restless yet confident. The first time you see the exhilaratingly stubborn hero of “Great Freedom,” he is moving around a grubby public bathroom.
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