Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Coming Out -- Heiner Carow and Film’s Revolutionary Potential -- Homosexuality in East Germany -- The Distress of Coming Out -- Melodrama and Its Excesses -- Romance and the Love Story -- Philipp and Tanja’s Courtship -- Queer Exploration -- Change and Upheaval -- A New Beginning -- Coming Out and Reconciling Identities -- Acceptance -- Release, Reception, and Legacy -- Credits -- Notes.
Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality..