Great Freedom

Sebastian Meise's latest offering and winner the 2021 'Un Certain Regard' Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans (Franz Rogowski) is imprisoned again and again under Paragraph 175, a law criminalizing homosexuality, but over the course of decades, he develops an unlikely yet tender bond with his cellmate Viktor (Georg Friedrich) – a convicted murderer.