"Two graveyard shift nurses pray their patients pass overnight simply to cure their boredom. A crazed therapist tries to convince a victim that the perfect coping mechanism is matricide. The government rounds up and ships off the infected to a quarantined archipelago named Hell Gay Land. Forty years on from its release, the first notable feature-length film to tackle the AIDS crisis-dark German comedy A Virus Knows No Morals -undoubtedly remains the most provocative."
"A leading figure of both the New German Cinema and New Queer Cinema scenes, von Praunheim was credited with sparking his homeland's Stonewall moment with 1971'sIt Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, an avant-garde political manifesto which practically demanded the gay community to reject heteronormative ideals. The proud agent of chaos, who sadly"
"Of course, one of them is not like the other. While the 1990 trilogy of Positive, Silence = Death, and Fire Under Your *ss were documentaries which drew upon the real-life experiences of devastated LGBTQ+ communities in New York and Berlin, A Virus Knows No Morals is an episodic blend of Warholian performance art, scathing satire, and surreal sketch comedy so pitch black you almost need a torch to see it."
A Virus Knows No Morals is a pitch-black German comedy that satirizes societal and institutional responses to the AIDS crisis through episodic, surreal sketches. Scenes include nurses who pray for patient deaths, a therapist advocating matricide as coping, and a government deporting the infected to a quarantined archipelago called Hell Gay Land. Rosa von Praunheim directed and deployed agitprop activism across his films. Von Praunheim took a stage name referencing pink triangles forced on queer men in Nazi camps. He was a leading figure in New German Cinema and New Queer Cinema and produced documentaries about AIDS in New York and Berlin alongside this darker parody.
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