Ben Becker

After WW2, many of Germany’s train stations were destroyed and had to be rebuilt; cinemas were drawn into the plans as a canny way of financing the rebuilding work. Thus the strange world of railway cinema was born: a fantastic place for movies that would never make it anywhere else. The “Bahnhofskino” was the German answer to the American grindhouse cinema. Featured by Jörg Buttgereit and Uwe Boll, “Cinema Perverso” takes you on an entertaining and unique trip into this terra incognita of modern film history and dives deep into German exploitation cinema, with strange masterpieces like the Schlager-softporn film “Lovecamp” or “Machoman”, a bizarre martial arts film shot in Nuremberg.

West Germany, 1967: Martin and Ruby fall in love. They want to break out of their respective lives and follow their ideals. Martin wants to become a writer, Ruby a singer. They meet secretly because Ruby's father is a strict Catholic. For him, Martin embodies everything that is bad. The two decide to run away to Berlin.