Die Konsequenz is a West German film from 1977. It is an adaptation of the 1975 autobiographical novel with the same name by Swiss author Alexander Ziegler and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The film has a pederastic theme. It has been praised as "one of the best `70s gay dramas." Gay actor Martin Kurath who is in prison develops a friendship with Thomas Manzoni , the 15-year-old son of the prison warden . The two fall in love and they both yearn for Kurath's release. This triggers intense indignation in their surroundings. After Kurath is released a year later, Thomas accompanied by... Kurath, tells his parents he is a homosexual. His father tells him to leave and never return. Kurath and Thomas move in together and Thomas enrolls in school. Thomas' father, however, then has him arrested and condemned to a brutal reformatory. Kurath obtains a fake passport and poses as a psychology doctoral candidate and helps Thomas escape with him to Germany. They are betrayed by a German homosexual friend of Kurath's who insists, in Kurath's absence, that Thomas become his lover in order to obtain a German residency permit.
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| Release date: | December 2, 1977 |
| Directed by: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bernd Eichinger |
| Editor: | Hannes Nikel |
| Adapted from: | Die Konsequenz |