Underground and Emigrants

Underground and Emigrants — Plot

In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish). The emigrants named in the title are notable Germans who left the country before World War II, such as Greta Keller and Grete Mosheim. Reviewers at the time of the film's release considered it to have been a sort of paid vacation for the filmmaker rather than a serious effort. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)

• Release date
• October 25, 1976
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Rosa von Praunheim

Underground and Emigrants — Cast

Fernando Arrabal Self

L

Lee Breuer Self William S. Burroughs Self Divine Self

T

Tom Eyen Self

G

Greta Keller Self

C

Charles Ludlam Self Grete Mosheim Self