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That Man: Peter Berlin Details

2006 Certificate 15
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Imagine yourself in mid-seventies San Fransisco, and you'll be able to conjure up images of the legendary Peter Berlin. Sex and style oozed from this man in skintight white pants, leather accountrements and smooth, shoulder-length blond hair. After just two remarkable 16mm pron films, he vanished from the scene, but always .. Read more

Starring Rick Castro, Armistead Maupin, Wakefield Poole, Robert W. Richards
Director Jim Tushinki
Genres Documentary, Gay/Lesbian

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That Man: Peter Berlin

Imagine yourself in mid-seventies San Fransisco, and you'll be able to conjure up images of the legendary Peter Berlin. Sex and style oozed from this man in skintight white pants, leather accountrements and smooth, shoulder-length blond hair. After just two remarkable 16mm pron films, he vanished from the scene, but always remained an alluring and mysterious icon... Featuring interviews with '70s icons including filmmaker John Waters and Wakefield Poole, porn star Jack Wrangler, author Armistead Maupin and Berlin himself, this is a lively documentary filled with juicy gossip...

Starring Rick Castro, Armistead Maupin, Wakefield Poole, Robert W. Richards, John Waters, Jim Warngler, Peter Berlin
Director Jim Tushinki
Studio TLA RELEASING
Run time DVD: 1 hr 20 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Documentary, Gay/Lesbian
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 23 Oct 2006
Production year: 2006
Format DVD

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  • 8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Gr8 Moving documentary

    Right firstly, i'm not gay. I am a rightwing conservative but i am a film lover and will watch anything which is well reviewed and considered 'good'. This movie is a incredible portrait of an vain , intelligent and beautiful man. Making only two porn films, Peter Berlin lived a vibrant & interesting life on the 70's scene meeting people like Mapplethorpe and Warhol as well as generally doing whatever (and whoever ) he liked. As a porn star he was unique taking his own photographs and not being motivated by money but rather by lust and artistic merit came to America at the height of the San Francisco gay scene. Of course this was ravaged by Aids in the 80's and Berlin- through a seemingly paradoxical safe sex obsession- managed to emerge unscathed. He poses the interesting question - having lost everyone close to him, is he not the victim rather than the survivor? I was very moved by the real Berlin a man not interested in publicity or money but only wanting to tell his story. The narrative is powered by contributions from rivals, contemporaries and celebrities like Armistead Maupin and John Waters- who like Elton John is good value in any documentary.Maybe not one to watch with the grandma, but a moving account of a world few of us in the so-called mainstream will ever experience.

    By the end of it i wanted a picture oF Berlin. I am even starting to question my own proclivities! just kidding- but he isa strange icon- as beautiful on the inside as on the outside and a hugely entertaining and engaging subject on film holding your interest completely and totally in the same way that Robert S Mcmanamara did in Fog Of War. Yes this documnentary is that good.

    It will be underwatched due to its gay content and thats a real shame.

    A gr8 film

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 31 Oct 2006 21:09

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Well.....

    The most interesting parts of this documentary, was the interview sections with Peter Berlin. Everything else was...boring. Poorly cut in my opinion. I recommend you watch the outtakes of the Peter Berlin interviews!

      • stephen kirk from Ilford, Essex
      • Posted 02 Jan 2007 17:49

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      • Imagine yourself in mid-seventies San Fransisco, and you'll be able to conjure up images of the legendary Peter Berlin. Sex and style oozed from this man in skintight white pants, leather ...