Rex Gildo - Der letzte Tanz

Rex Gildo - The Last Dance

In a mixture of feature film scenes and archive footage, Rosa von Praunheim draws a portrait of the music icon Rex Gildo. The focus is on the singer's double life: on the one hand, the embodiment of his image as a womanizer, on the other, his intimate relationship with his manager Fred Miekley. Rosa von Praunheim shows Rex Gildo's life in the light of the repressive public and legal attitude towards homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, which meant that Gildo had to play a role for the public. At the same time, von Praunheim tries to show Gildo's real personality, in staged scenes and in current conversations with close friends of the star.