Taxi zum Klo

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Taxi zum Klo
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Directed by	Frank Ripploh
Written by	Frank Ripploh
Starring	Frank Ripploh Bernd Broaderup
Music by	Hans Wittstatt
Cinematography	Horst Schier
Editing by	Gela-Marina Runne Matthias von Gunten
Distributed by	Promovision International (USA)
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	approx. 95 min.
Country	Germany
Language	German
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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.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Cast 2 Critical reception 3 References 4 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] Critical reception

• The Village Voice hailed it as 'the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life'.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations by Phillip Brian Harper, paperback edition, page 70

[edit] External links

• Taxi zum Klo at the Internet Movie Database
• Taxi zum Klo at Allmovie