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Cast

Jeff Stryker, Luzy Kryn, Karl-Heinz Teuber, Sirena Irwin, Selene Luna, Vaginal Davis

Team

Director
Rosa von Praunheim

Script
Rosa von Praunheim, Lawrence Elbert

Director of Photography
Lorenz Haarmann

Editor
Rosa von Praunheim, Lorenz Haarmann

Sound
Dolby SR

Music
Alan Ari Lazar

Production Designer
Arnie Saiko

Producer
Regina Ziegler

TV Editor
Karin Zahn, WDR

Info

Broadcaster
WDR

Genre
Short Feature

Format
35 mm, colour; 1:1,85

Length
29 min.

Awards
TEAM AWARD, Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2001, Germany

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

1999

Background

Rosa did one of those photogenic double-takes when he was told by Ziegler-Film that his Bratwurst had been booked by no less 80 international festivals and other film events over the past 18 months - an average of nearly once a week. “Don’t be surprised if we reach 100 by the end of the year,” mused Regina Ziegler. “Maybe we should register the film in the Guinness Book of Records!”
That cordial, lasting, mutually esteemed relationship between producer Regina Ziegler and writer-director Rosa von Praunheim goes back three decades - to when Regina assisted Rosa (alias Holger Mischwitzki) on one of the comic cult classics of the New German Cinema movement: Die Bettwurst (1970). Starring Rosa’s fabulous “Aunt Luci” Kryn and the inimitable Dietmar Kracht, the film proved so popular that it prompted an immediate sequel, Berliner Bettwurst (1973), and might have hatched a series had not Dietmar tried to swim Lake Havel one luminous evening. No matter - Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? bears all the earmarks of a consummated trilogy: a kinky, ribald, diverting, hilarious Erotic Tale. And not a moment too soon, for it was the last screen appearance of the nonagenarian Luci Kryn.
Shot at the fabled Highland Gardens in Hollywood, and starring gay porn star Jeff Stryker in his first full-fledged acting role, Bratwurst confirms Praunheim as a gifted storyteller with a light hand for comic twists, a flair for amusing character portrayals, and a pronounced talent for situational theatrics that walk the fine line between the absolutely absurd and the positively preposterous. As one observant critic remarked, “there’s never been a Christmas dinner quite like this one before!”

Synopsis
This sweet little cannibal comedy stars the legendary porno star Jeff Stryker in his first legitimate role. Jeff plays a stranger from the Midwest who arrives in Hollywood, rents a motel room, and becomes the major fantasy of the owner, his mother and all the other guests. Young and old, male and female, black and white: everybody finds him delectable. In the end, they invite him for a Christmas dinner.....

Rosa von Praunheim - Director
Rosa von Praunheim was born in Riga, Latvia in 1942. He studied painting in Berlin and took his artist’s name of Rosa von Praunheim in 1964; partly in reference to the pink triangle homosexuals were forced to wear in the Nazi concentration camps. Rosa is a well-known gay who has made over 50 films as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema.

Filmography:
(a selection of his best known films)
2002 Pfui Rosa!
2002 Kühe vom Nebel geschwängert
2002 Tunten lügen nicht
2000 Für mich gab's nur noch Fassbinder
1999 CAN I BE YOUR BRATWURST, PLEASE?
1999 Wunderbares Wrodow
1999 The Einstein of Sex
1998 Gay Courage
1996 Transsexual Menace
1992 I am my own Woman
1985 A Virus knows no Morals
1971-1976 Army of Lovers
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