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Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit)

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Sebastian Meise

Producer:

Benny Drechsel, Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann

Writer:

Thomas Reider

Release Date:

Mar 4, 2022

Runtime:

1hr 56m

Synopsis

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.

Cast

  • Franz Rogowski
  • Georg Friedrich
  • Anton von Lucke
  • Thomas Prenn
  • Thomas Stecher
  • Alfred Hartung
  • Thomas Wehling
  • Mex Schlüpfer
  • David Burnell IV
  • Fabian Stumm

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Based on 18 Critics
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USER SCORE (29)

Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Reviews
80
Mar 12, 2022

The power of Sebastian Meise’s subdued prison drama comes not from big, brash moments but from subtle details. Sound design that hints at the aching emptiness outside the frame and beyond the walls.

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Wendy Ide
The Observer (UK)
80
Mar 11, 2022

Great Freedom’s non-linear narrative is a worthy device for character development, allowing us to piece together a friendship that begins in suspicion and homophobia but develops over decades into something approaching love. But more than that, it is an expression of the shadows that the past casts over the present, the way that time and place weave themselves together, and their inevitable inescapability as well as how to resist them.

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Metacritic review by Christopher Machell
Christopher Machell
CineVue
80
Mar 9, 2022

Great Freedom is a formidably intelligent and well-acted prison movie and also a love story – or perhaps a paradoxically platonic bromance, stretching from the end of the second world war to the moon landing.

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Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
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