This film gives us a touching look at several unique, vibrant people who survived the Holocaust-era persecution of homosexuals, but it lacks the substance and historical detail that a good treatment of this subject requires. The stories of the pro-gay Wiemar culture are the best thing about the picture. From them, we get a real sense of what that era was like and what a loss the Nazi ascension represented. When the film considers the Holocaust itself, however, the interviewees' reticence on the topic fails to provide nearly so rich a description of either the camps or the legal mechanisms of Nazi persecution of homosexuals. It is not a bad film by any means, but it does little to educate the viewer, and education on this topic is sorely needed.
Review of Paragraph 175
