--- title: 'Coming Out (1989)' type: 'film' director: 'Heiner Carow' released: '1989-01-01' runtime_minutes: 113 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'German Democratic Republic' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/coming-out-1989' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097095/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Coming Out (1989) 1989 · 113 min · Drama, Romance · German Democratic Republic ## Synopsis Coming Out is a 1989 East German film directed by Heiner Carow and written by Wolfram Witt which deals with the lead character, a high school teacher, "coming out" and accepting himself as gay. It was the last East German film released to the public prior to the German reunification and one of the last films made by DEFA, the East German state film studio, and the only gay-themed feature film that it made. ## Credits - **Director:** [Heiner Carow](https://cinepixo.com/people/heiner-carow) - **Screenplay:** [Wolfram Witt](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfram-witt) - **Original Music Composer:** [Stefan Carow](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefan-carow) - **Director of Photography:** [Martin Schlesinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-schlesinger) - **Editor:** [Evelyn Carow](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-carow) ## Cast - [Michael Gwisdek](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-gwisdek) as Achim - [Thomas Gumpert](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-gumpert) - [Werner Dissel](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-dissel) as Walter - [Dagmar Manzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/dagmar-manzel) as Tanja - [Dirk Kummer](https://cinepixo.com/people/dirk-kummer) as Matthias Seifert - [Charlotte von Mahlsdorf](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlotte-von-mahlsdorf) - [Matthias Freihof](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthias-freihof) as Philipp Klarmann - [Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-sanoussi-bliss) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/coming-out-1989 Film facts: Wikidata (Q656166); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.