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Retrospective
Taxi zum Klo
“I like men, I’m 30 years old and I work as a teacher,” says Frank, who occasionally goes out dressed as Peggy in the evenings. Dressed in drag, he meets Bernd and takes him straight home from the cinema. From that moment on, the two become a couple. Frank enjoys being with Bernd, but he also wants to retain his freedom beyond the comforts of domestic life: meeting other men, especially anonymous sex in parks and public toilets, the thrill of adventure and excess. He has no interest in the monogamous relationship and quiet life on a farm that Bernd dreams of. At the annual Tuntenball, tensions finally erupt...
In TAXI ZUM KLO, director and lead actor Frank Ripploh tells his own life story. Before turning to filmmaking, he worked as a teacher at a school in West Berlin, but his openness about his homosexuality cost him his job. Ripploh’s film is not only an erotic and absurdly funny journey into the gay scene of the 1980s, but also a moving and utterly independent piece of queer cinema history.