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Beginning at 6:00 PM at the Circus of Knowledge
(Doors open at 5:30 PM)
(Doors open at 5:30 PM)
Vienna 1919: Margarethe Csonka (Christina Cervenka), a young middle-class daughter, is a lesbian and her parents send her to see Sigmund Freud (Karl Markovics).
![[Translate to Englisch:] Filmstill Verbotenes Begehren](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/f/csm_Verbotenes_Begehren_7ab6b2afd5.png)
©© Foto: Paya/Vucsina/V-Set
They want him to "cure" her of her "forbidden desire" towards a scandalous baroness and high-class prostitute. Gretl, however, fights for her love and misleads the psychiatrist. Freud concludes that homosexuality can neither be treated - nor does it need to be.
Scenes from the film:
![[Translate to Englisch:] Ankathie Koi](/typo3temp/assets/images/csm_02_QH1_Ankathie_Koi1_5d91a5f742_ead9410f20.jpg)
![[Translate to Englisch:] Gretl Csonka bei Freud](/typo3temp/assets/images/csm_04_QH1_Gretl_Csonka_bei_Freud_9a69c5acef_7a498962bb.jpg)
![[Translate to Englisch:] Filmstill Verbotenes Begehren](/typo3temp/assets/images/csm_07_QH1_Karl_Markovics_Caroline_Frank_Florian_Carove_dd90a01784_b1c490a586.jpg)
![[Translate to Englisch:] Gretl Csonka im Luftschutzkeller](/typo3temp/assets/images/csm_14_QH1_Gretl_Csonka_im_Luftschutzkeller2_7c91f06c0e_4782e0c3d8.jpg)
![[Translate to Englisch:] Caroline Frank als Irma Csonka](/typo3temp/assets/images/csm_16_QH1_Caroline_Frank_als_Irma_Csonka_2_8add680f9e_3631c053ea.jpg)
![[Translate to Englisch:] Regisseur Fritz Kalteis mit Karl Markovics](/typo3temp/assets/images/csm_19_QH1_Regisseur_Fritz_Kalteis_mit_Karl_Markovics_als_Sigmund_Freud_b23e72cb9d_439816d876.jpg)
Following the film:
A post-film discussion
with director Fritz Kalteis (Feature Film)
and
Johann Kirchknopf (enter for Queer History Vienna)
moderated by Elisabeth Greif (head of the JKU Department of Legal Gender Studies).
