Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern) is a German movie about a relationship between a master violinist and his student.

In 1919, the first known film that was sympathetic to gay people was produced. This was 50 years before Stonewall. 

Paul Körner, the violinist, is approached by a young man named Kurt who begs Paul to be his teacher. He accepts and their relationship develops. 

Their families don’t understand their relationship, and Paul comes out to his parents by sending them to a doctor who explains that Paul is gay and it’s nothing to worry about. Homosexuality isn’t an illness, the doctor says, it’s just a normal variation of human sexuality.

The film were banned a year after it was released.

The film goes on to discuss suicide among gay men, the pressure to be straight, and blackmail used against Paul.

Available on You Tube.