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- Rosa von Praunheim, a German avant-garde filmmaker, died on December 17 in Berlin at age 83.
- His 1971 film It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives, influenced Germany's gay rights movement and anchored him in the New German Cinema.
- The film is regarded as Germany's "Stonewall moment."
- Despite mixed reviews, it inspired gay-rights groups across Europe.
