The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
as Magnus Hirschfeld (alt)
as Magnus Hirschfeld (jung)
as Adolf Brand
as Polizeipräsident
as Professor Steinach
as Arbeiterin
as Karl Giese
as Richard
as Sängerin
as Tante Gesche
as Gräfin
as Hermann von Teschenberg
as Onkel von Hirschfeld
as Dorchen
as Hochzeitsgast
