DIRECTOR · FROM RIGA, LATVIA
Rosa von Praunheim
1942–2025105 credits since 19681 coming up
LgbtqThought provokingGrittyClassTrue story
ABOUT ROSA
Rosa von Praunheim, born Holger Bernhard Bruno Waldemar Mischwitzky, was a German film director, author, painter and the most famous gay rights activist in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A prolific director, he has made over seventy feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
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Born25 November 1942
Died17 December 2025
BirthplaceRiga, Latvia
Known forDirecting
On Cineora9 of 97 titles
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Career
IMDb rating of each title they made on Cineora, by year.
- Titles on Cineora
- 9
- Average IMDb
- 6.0
- Highest rated
- Tough LoveIMDb 6.8
- Working since
- 1968
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