Austria's official submission for International Feature Film at the 2022
Academy Awards is director Sebastian Meise's Great Freedom. The film stars Franz Rogowski as a gay man persecuted in post-war Germany, where
he is repeatedly jailed for his sexuality. While in prison he begins to
bond with a convicted murderer. Georg Friedrich, Anton Von Lucke and Thomas Prenn also
star.
Great Freedom is in UK/ROI cinemas from March 4th,
2022.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans has been found guilty for his homosexuality, deemed grounds for imprisonment under Paragraph 175. Over the course of decades, he is spied on and repeatedly jailed as a result.As Hans returns to prison again and again, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor, a convicted murderer. What begins as revulsion blossoms over time into something far more tender.