The film describes the life of a dominatrix who lives in the same apartment building as director Rosa von Praunheim and with whom he has become friends.
30 Jahre an der Peitsche
Rosa von Praunheim
Born in 1942 as Holger Mischwitzky in Riga/Latvia. Studied Painting at the Berlin University of the Arts. Worked as an instructor. Active as a director, producer, writer, and painter.
1969 SCHWESTERN DER REVOLUTION, Kurzfilm 1971 DIE BETTWURST, Spielfilm 1971 NICHT DER HOMOSEXUELLE IST PERVERS, SONDERN DIE SITUATION, IN DER ER LEBT, Spielfilm 1989 ÜBERLEBEN IN NEW YORK, Spielfilm HOF 1989 und 2006 1996 TRANSSEXUAL MENACE, Dokumentarfilm 1999 CAN I BE YOUR BRATWURST, PLEASE?, Kurzfilm HOF 1999 2002 TUNTEN LÜGEN NICHT, Dokumentarfilm 2010 NEW YORK MEMORIES, Dokumentarfilm 2011 DIE JUNGS VOM BAHNHOF ZOO, Dokumentarfilm 2012 KÖNIG DES COMICS, Dokumentarfilm 2015 HÄRTE, Dokumentarfilm 2017 ACT! WER BIN ICH?, Dokumentarfilm 2018 MÄNNERFREUNDSCHAFTEN, Dokumentarfilm 2019 DARKROOM – TÖDLICHE TROPFEN, Spielfilm 2022 REX GILDO – DER LETZTE TANZ, Spieldokumentation
2024 DREISSIG JAHRE AN DER PEITSCHE, Spieldokumentation HOF 2024
“The film is about a dominatrix who has practiced her profession in the apartment building where I have been living for 30 years. I always sent my students there and said, ‘You will have to suffer a lot as directors, but try to suffer with pleasure.’ And then they had to write in my apartment with all that emotionality. Students with a high school diploma generally lack feeling, since they are educated purely scientifically. I always have to teach them what feeling is. Because film is not thoughts in images, but feeling in images.” Rosa von Praunheim