Taxi zum Klo

Infobox Film
name = Taxi zum Klo


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caption = DVD Cover
director = Frank Ripploh
producer =
writer = Frank Ripploh
narrator =
starring = Frank Ripploh
Bernd Broaderup
music = Hans Wittstatt
cinematography = Horst Schier
editing = Gela-Marina Runne
Matthias von Gunten
distributor = Promovision International (USA)
released = 1981
runtime = "approx." 95 min.
country = GER
language = German
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amg_id = 1:48733
imdb_id = 0081606

"Taxi zum Klo" is a 1981 film written by, directed by, and starring Frank Ripploh. The story of a schoolteacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives, the film documents gay culture in West Berlin in the period in which it was made. Ripploh has stated that much of the film was autobiographical. [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9505E6DC103BF931A35753C1A967948260]

Cast

*Frank Ripploh as Frank Ripploh
*Bernd Broaderup as Bernd
*Orpha Termin
*Peter Fahrni as Gas station attendant
*Dieter Godde
*Klaus Schnee
*Bernd Kroger
*Markus Voigtlander
*Irmgard Lademacher
*Gregor Becker
*Marguerite Dupont
*Eberhard Freudenthal
*Beate Springer
*Millie Büttner
*Gitta Lederer

Critical reception

*The Village Voice hailed it as 'the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life'."Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations" by Phillip Brian Harper, paperback edition, page 70]

References

External links

*imdb title|0081606|Taxi zum Klo
*amg title|1:48733|Taxi zum Klo