Filmin premieres "Against the Law" ("Against the Law"), one of the LGTBI gems of the season in the United Kingdom
GAYLES.TV.- The next December 5 The film will premiere the TV Movie in Spain "Agains the law", A film that is part of the" Gay Britannia ", the special programming with which the with the BBC is commemorating the 50 anniversary of the approval of the Sexual Offenses Law of 1967 with which the British Parliament partially decriminalized homosexuality in the United Kingdom.
Produced by the BBC, "Against the Law" mixes an elegant fiction with interviews to men who, at that time, suffered an overwhelming legal persecution because of their homosexuality. The film is based on the journalist's homonymous and autobiographical novel Peter Wildeblood, who in 1954 was sentenced to 18 months in prison for having participated in a party with two other men. The mediatic judicial process was known as the Montagu case, by the young aristocrat in whose house on the beach the meeting was held and who held the title of Baron de Montagu. The three participants were sentenced to prison sentences for "sodomy" and "outrage against public morals".
In one of the hardest scenes of "Against the Law", Peter Wildeblood listens to the conversation of a prison doctor about the possible treatments to which he could be subjected to "Eradicate his homosexuality". For example, receiving electric shocks while fantasizing about naked men or giving him an injection that would cause vomiting and make him defecate. The hardness of the film lies in the fact that the sequence of fiction is accompanied by the testimonies of those who lived the experience in their own skin.
After leaving prison Wildeblood became a strong advocate of gay rights and managed to put the British judicial system in check by facing laws that had ruined the lives of many men like him. In this way, his testimony was key to 1957's call Wolfenden report I would advise that "homosexual behavior in private and between consenting adults should not remain a crime." For later, in 1967, approve the aforementioned Sexual Offenses Law.
Fergus O'Brien has directed the production that counts in its distribution with Daniel Mays, Mark Gatiss, Charlie Creed-Miles and Richard Gadd. The soundtrack is signed by the Barcelona resident from London Roger Goula.
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