A VIRUS KNOWS NO MORALS
(EIN VIRUS KENNT KEINE MORAL)
dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1986
84 minutes. Germany.
In German with English subtitles.

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 - 10 PM

Meet some of the faces of AIDS in Germany: a capitalist bathhouse owner (played by Rosa von Praunheim himself) who refuses to shut down his business even as he succumbs to disease, a virologist whose research is centered around extracting as much money from the dying as possible, and a straight woman who wants to make it with a gay man ‘before they go extinct.’ Both a precursor to Praunheim’s AIDS Trilogy (screened last year) and the first German film to directly address the epidemic, A VIRUS KNOWS NO MORALS is a caustic, take-no-prisoners satire on the AIDS Industrial Complex and those who sought to both profit from the virus and downplay its threat, and one of the most radical AIDS films of the 80s.