Taxi zum Klo

Taxi zum Klo is a 1981 film written by, directed by, and starring Frank Ripploh. The story of a schoolteacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives, the film documents pre-AIDS gay culture in West Berlin in the early 1980s. Ripploh has stated that much of the film was autobiographical. The name literally means Taxi to the Toilet (or "Taxi to the John", etc.), that being a place for casual gay sex.

Contents

• Cast
• Critical reception
• References

Cast

Frank Ripploh as Frank Ripploh

Bernd Broaderup as Bernd

Orpha Termin

Peter Fahrni as Gas station attendant

Hans-Gerd Mehrtens as the Leather Boy

Dieter Godde

Klaus Schnee

Bernd Kroger

Markus Voigtlander

Irmgard Lademacher

Gregor Becker

Marguerite Dupont

Eberhard Freudenthal

Beate Springer

Millie Büttner

Gitta Lederer

Toller Cranston in a cameo role as himself

Critical reception

The Village Voice hailed it as 'the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life'. Taxi zum Klo tied with Beau-père in winning the 1981 Boston Society of Film Critics Award for best foreign language film.