Taxi zum Klo

Taxi zum Klo
Taxi zum Klo
	DVD Cover
Directed by	Frank Ripploh
Written by	Frank Ripploh
Starring	Frank Ripploh; Bernd Broaderup;
Cinematography	Horst Schier
Edited by	Gela-Marina Runne; Matthias von Gunten;
Music by	Hans Wittstatt
Distributed by	Promovision International (USA)
Release date	1981;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

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,^[1] 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.^[2]^[3]

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 Büttner
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".^[4] Taxi zum Klo tied with Beau-père in winning the 1981 Boston Society of Film Critics Award for best foreign language film.^[5]

References[]

^ "Taxi Zum Klo". www.bbfc.co.uk. British Board of Film Classification. 22 April 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
^ Movie Review: Taxi zum Klo (1981) Janet Maslin, The New York Times, 2 October 1981.
^ Taxi Zum Klo, review Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2011.
^ Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations by Phillip Brian Harper, paperback edition, page 70
^ "Past Award Winners," Boston Society of Film Critics, URL accessed March 1, 2013.

External links[]

Taxi zum Klo at IMDb
Taxi zum Klo at AllMovie

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[1] "Taxi Zum Klo". www.bbfc.co.uk. British Board of Film Classification. 22 April 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

[2] Movie Review: Taxi zum Klo (1981) Janet Maslin, The New York Times, 2 October 1981.

[3] Taxi Zum Klo, review Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2011.

[''Private_Affairs''_by_Phillip_Brian_Harper-4] Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations by Phillip Brian Harper, paperback edition, page 70

[5] "Past Award Winners," Boston Society of Film Critics, URL accessed March 1, 2013.

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