Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

In Berlin of the late Golden Twenties, the Eldorado is legendary – a decadent and hedonistic nightclub in which gays, lesbians and trans people dance cheek to cheek with the rich and powerful. They let loose to the electrifying music of the Weintraub Syncopators, intoxicated by the smells of perfume, rouge and manly sweat. But the Eldorado is also a space of contradictions, in which some openly gay visitors come dressed in Nazi uniforms. It’s against this backdrop that the heroes of this extraordinary story cross each other’s paths. They are part of the first LGBT movement in history, and this film visualizes for the first time how their emerging identity was intertwined with the Nazis’ twisted relationship to homosexuality within their own ranks. This film intertwines biographical stories, archival footage, voices of renowned historians and of the last generation of first person witnesses and family members with accurate, state-of-the-art re-enactments.