The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
Rosa von Praunheim
Director
Friedel von Wangenheim
Magnus Hirschfeld (alt)
Kai Schumann
Magnus Hirschfeld (jung)
Ben Becker
Adolf Brand
Wolfgang Völz
Polizeipräsident
Otto Sander
Professor Steinach
Meret Becker
Arbeiterin
Olaf Drauschke
Karl Giese
Peter Ehrlich
Richard
Angelika Mann
Sängerin
Christa Pasemann
Tante Gesche
Monika Hansen
Gräfin
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