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# Cannes Prizewinner Great Freedom Opens in Theaters
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/cannes-prizewinner-great-freedom-opens-in-theaters/
- Published: 2022-03-01T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:13:38.000Z
- Description: See Austria’s Best International Film submission to the 2022 Academy Awards, a searing queer love story starring Franz Rogowski (Transit).
- Author: MUBI
- Tags: Announcement, Film Announcements, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:22 (2021, 2022, part 2)

Sebastian Meise’s film [*Great Freedom*](https://bit.ly/33T3NtX?ref=hyperallergic.com), described as “personal, political, and sensual” (*Variety*), arrives at New York’s Film Forum on March 4 and Los Angeles’s Laemmle Royal and Playhouse on March 11 before expanding to theaters across the US.

Set in post-war Germany, this stirring portrait of gay resistance and resilience turns a humanist eye towards a heartrending past. Unfolding across three decades, the film traces the repeated imprisonment of one man under Paragraph 175 — a law criminalizing homosexual activity.

After being “liberated” by Allied forces in 1945, Hans is transferred directly from a concentration camp to prison to finish out his sentence. There, he forms an unlikely connection with his cellmate Viktor, a convicted murderer. As Hans is jailed again and again, their relationship blossoms into something tender and transformative.

Anchored by a revelatory star turn from Franz Rogowski (*Transit*), *Great Freedom* weaves together moments across time to form a sensual yet arresting epic. In the process, this Oscar-shortlisted feature triumphs as a depiction of love in the face of injustice.

**Learn more and get tickets at** [**mubi.com/greatfreedom**](https://bit.ly/33T3NtX?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.** A MUBI Release.

“The best gay film of the year… truly astounding” — EDGE Media