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Plot summary
In West Berlin, Frank works as a schoolteacher and tutors on the side, doing the duties his job requires. His pupils like him, and he joins his colleagues for bowling night, though some of them gossip about the men who visit his flat. Away from school his friends call him Peggy, and he spends his time cruising in his old Karmann. He sometimes marks homework in a toilet stall while he waits for a man to appear. Bernd works in a cinema and wants a quieter life, with a farm. The two share a home and a bed, but Frank keeps testing his limits and going out for anonymous sex, while Bernd tries to get him to stay faithful.
Cast
- Bernd Broaderupas Bernd
- Orpha Terminas Neighbour
- Peter Fahrnias Gstation attendant
- Dieter Göddeas Masseur
- Klaus Schneeas Teacher
- Bernd Krögeras Teacher
- Markus Voigtländeras Teacher
- Irmgard Lademacheras Teacher
- Gregor Beckeras Teacher
- Marguerite Dupontas Teacher
- Eberhard Freudenthalas Teacher
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Taxi to the Toilet (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Taxi zum Klo is the only non-pornographic film approved for audiences aged 16 and over in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland to show fellatio and a man ejaculating into his partner's mouth and the semen being swallowed, in a long, detailed close-up.
- Frank Ripploh said his career as a teacher had been ruined, and that making Taxi zum Klo satisfied a very simple desire for revenge, along the lines of "I'll get back at you".
- Frank Ripploh was still a West Berlin secondary school teacher and a civil servant on probation while filming, having been disciplined by the school authorities after coming out as gay on the cover of Stern magazine in 1978.
- After a showing at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk, Virginia, police seized a print of the film on 5 October 1983; its distributor sued and got the print back, and the cinema's operators were charged with a misdemeanor and given a light fine.
- Austrian authorities confiscated the film on 17 May 1981, during preparations for the first gay film festival in Vienna, because of same-sex pornography.
- For its UK cinema release the British Board of Film Classification demanded that images of erection, penetration and BDSM be reduced and that two scenes be cut, one of urolagnia and one a stranger-danger public information film, so it could not be shown even in the new R18 category; it was passed uncut as 18 in 2011.
