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Satanische Sau

Satanic Sow
Panorama Dokumente 2025
© Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion
The sow is me, played by my alter ego, the brilliant actor Armin Dallapiccola. The movie is a dream, a parody, a farce of my life: poetic associations with my death, my sex life, my rebirth.
I revisit some of the 150 films I’ve made, think of my lovers – a couple of whom I reward by sticking flowers up their asses and whom I have to paint blindfolded. Then my neighbour dies, leaving behind an infinitely sad widower. A fan rings my doorbell and forces me to have sex after death, and my friends sing the song “Great God, We Praise You”. But God Himself explains His perverse morality, praising evil and deeming good to be naive.
My mother, played by Anne Rathsfeld, is horrified and the stuffed apes and pigs that come to life illustrate my great love of animals. At one point, Katy Karrenbauer reveals to us the terrible truth: we are all satanic swine.

Rosa von Praunheim
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by Rosa von Praunheim (Director, Screenplay)
with Armin Dallapiccola, Justus Herrmann, Nico Ehrenteit, Katy Karrenbauer, Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg Germany 2025 85' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

With

  • Armin Dallapiccola
  • Justus Herrmann
  • Nico Ehrenteit
  • Katy Karrenbauer
  • Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg

Crew

Director Rosa von Praunheim
Screenplay Rosa von Praunheim
Cinematography Lorenz Haarmann, Elias Redlitz
Editing Rosa von Praunheim, Mike Shephard
Music Andreas Wolter
Casting Thomas Melzer
Producer Rosa von Praunheim

Produced by

Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

Photos

Rosa von Praunheim

The multi-award-winning film director and writer is recognised as one of the most important figures in post-modern German cinema and is a trailblazer in the gay and lesbian political movement in the country. In over 50 years, he has directed more than 150 films. Born as Holger Mischwitzky in Riga, Latvia in 1942, he grew up in Frankfurt am Main and has lived in Berlin since the mid-1960s. His best known films include Die Bettwurst and Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt. Ever since Rote Liebe (Red Love) was presented in the Forum in 1982, his work has featured regularly in the Panorama programme.

Filmography (selection)

1970 Die Bettwurst · Armee der Liebenden (Army of Lovers); documentary 1971 Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation in der er lebt; documentary 1976 Ich bin ein Antistar. Das skandalöse Leben der Evelyn Künneke; documentary 1978 Tally Brown, New York; documentary 1981 Unsere Leichen leben noch; documentary 1983 Stadt der verlorenen Seelen (The City of Lost Souls); documentary 1984 Horror Vacui 1985 Ein Virus kennt keine Moral 1987 Anita – Tänze des Lasters 1989 Überleben in New York; documentary · Schweigen = Tod (Silence = Death); documentary 1992 Ich bin meine eigene Frau (I Am My Own Woman); documentary 1996 Neurosia – 50 Jahre pervers 1999 Der Einstein des Sex (The Einstein of Sex) 2002 Tunten lügen nicht; documentary 2005 Dein Herz in meinem Hirn 2011 Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo; documentary 2015 Härte 2022 Rex Gildo – Der letzte Tanz (Rex Gildo – The Last Dance); documentary 2024 Dreißig Jahre an der Peitsche (Twenty Years at the Whip); documentary 2025 Satanische Sau (Satanic Sow); documentary

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025