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'Taxi zum Klo' 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 Berlin school teacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives. It was sexually explicit for general audiences of the day and for some time afterwards. As a result, the film was not passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification until 2011, though it was widely shown in club cinemas. '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 name literally means 'Taxi to the Toilet' (or "Cab to the Cottage", etc.), that being a place for casual gay sex.[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9505E6DC103BF931A35753C1A967948260 Movie Review: Taxi zum Klo (1981)] Janet Maslin, 'The New York Times', 2 October 1981.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/8467365/Taxi-Zum-Klo-review.html Taxi Zum Klo, review] Sukhdev Sandhu, 'The Daily Telegraph', 21 April 2011.

Cast



* Frank Ripploh as Frank Ripploh

* Bernd Broaderup as Bernd

* Orpha Termin

* Peter Fahrni as Gas station attendant

* Hans-Gerd Mehrtens as the Leather Boy

* Dieter Godde

* Klaus Schnee

* Bernd Kroger

* Markus Voigtlander

* Irmgard Lademacher

* Gregor Becker

* Marguerite Dupont

* Eberhard Freudenthal

* Beate Springer

* Millie Bttner

* Gitta Lederer

* Toller Cranston in a cameo role as himself

Critical reception



'The Village Voice' hailed it as "the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life".'Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations' by Phillip Brian Harper, paperback edition, page 70 'Taxi zum Klo' tied with 'Beau-pre' in winning the 1981 Boston Society of Film Critics Award for best foreign language film."[http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/content/past-award-winners Past Award Winners]," 'Boston Society of Film Critics', URL accessed March 1, 2013.

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