The Raspberry: Reich -2004-

In an era where pride parades are sponsored by banks and police departments, The Raspberry Reich remains a vital, uncomfortable artifact. It screams what politics dares not: that true queer liberation cannot be bought, domesticated, or televised. It must be, in LaBruce’s own words, “unclean, unruly, and unreal.”

that blends political satire, "terrorist chic" aesthetics, and radical sexual politics. Set in Berlin, it follows a group of self-proclaimed "queer revolutionaries" who kidnap the son of a wealthy industrialist in a parodic nod to the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang). Sample Social Media Post The Raspberry Reich -2004-

The "raspberry" of the title is a triple entendre: the raspberry as a rude sound of derision (blowing a raspberry at authority); the fruit’s red color (communism); and a slang term for a woman’s genitalia—a nod to the film’s radical feminist, matriarchal revolutionary cell. In an era where pride parades are sponsored

Bruce LaBruce has never been a filmmaker interested in subtlety, and The Raspberry Reich (2004) is perhaps his most loud, abrasive, and oddly entertaining declaration of war against the status quo. It is a film that screams its thesis at the viewer through a megaphone, demanding to be seen as a piece of "terrorist chic" that blurs the lines between revolutionary fervor and sexual liberation. Set in Berlin, it follows a group of

In the 2004 satirical film The Raspberry Reich , directed by Bruce LaBruce