Taxi zum Klo (1980)

Directed by

Frank Ripploh

Genre

drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

16

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A West Berlin school teacher leads a double life. By day he instructs students but by night he pursues casual sex in public toilets. The film shows the gap between his respectable job and his uninhibited private world.

darkly comicunflinchingintimaterawearthymundanesubversiveautobiographicalcandid

What happens

Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet) is a 1981 film written by, directed by, and starring Frank Ripploh. The film is a dark comedy of manners that explores the life of a West Berlin school teacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives. Taxi zum Klo was considered groundbreaking for its subject matter and achieved a cult status among audiences of the time. Shot on location with many characters appearing as themselves, the film documents gay culture in West Berlin in the brief moment post gay liberation and before the onset of AIDS, around 1980. Ripploh has stated that much of the film was autobiographical. The title refers to the public toilet as a place for casual gay sex. As it contains a number of sexually explicit scenes, the film was not passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification until 2011, though it was widely shown in club cinemas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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