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Unfilmed: The screenplay 'The Puppet Boy' by Wieland Speck
Program accompanying the exhibition Inventing Queer Cinema
Drehbuch: Der Puppenjunge
© Bild: Speckfilm
Reading and talk
Wieland Speck (director, curator of former Berlinale Panorama, TEDDY Awards)
Til Schindler (actor)
in 1926, the German author John Henry Mackay published the novel 'Der Puppenjunge. The story of a nameless love from Friedrichstrasse' about the bookseller Hermann Graff, who falls in love with the hustler Günter. in 1992, filmmaker and activist Wieland Speck adapted the novel, but his screenplay remained unfilmed. We talk to Speck about his adaptation, successful activism and failed financing. Actor Til Schindler reads parts of the script in public for the first time.
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Wieland Speck (director, curator of former Berlinale Panorama, TEDDY Awards)
Til Schindler (actor)
in 1926, the German author John Henry Mackay published the novel 'Der Puppenjunge. The story of a nameless love from Friedrichstrasse' about the bookseller Hermann Graff, who falls in love with the hustler Günter. in 1992, filmmaker and activist Wieland Speck adapted the novel, but his screenplay remained unfilmed. We talk to Speck about his adaptation, successful activism and failed financing. Actor Til Schindler reads parts of the script in public for the first time.
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