Join queer loox and Luxembourg Pride on July 9 as we dive deep into our shared history with a screening of Basil Dearden’s 1961 neo-noir thriller Victim.
Lawyer Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) takes up the case of a worker who is blackmailed for being homosexual at the cost of derailing his promising career.
Now considered a classic of British film history, the film was the first of its kind in Great Britain to address homosexuality explicitly and deal with it in an open and emphatic manner, and it is largely credited with liberalising attitudes of homosexuality in Great Britain, which in turn led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom in 1967.
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
Genre: neo-noir thriller, LGBTQ
Language: OV with FR subtitles
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When: 9 July 2022, 19.00
Where: Cercle Cité, Luxembourg City