This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

Directors

Hollibaugh, Amber
Reticker, Gini

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This title is part of the Frameline Film Festival Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

Director

Raab, Kurt

Year

1989

Synopsis

Three and a half years before work began on this videotape, German actor Kurt Raab was commissioned to write a book about himself and the New German Film. The book was never completed. Instead, Raab decided to do sketches on video with Hanno Baethe. Six of the thirty-three sketches were completed before Raab learned that he was HIV positive. A short time later he was confined to bed in a Hamburg hospital, dependent on the help of others. Shot up to the time he died, A Yearning for Sodom presents excerpts from the video sketches, scenes from Raab's film work with Fassbinder, and interviews with Raab and his actor friend and main caregiver, Hans Hirschmuller.

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