Eismayer

 2022, 87 minutes, Dir: David Wagner, Germany

Sergeant Major Eismayer (Gerhard Liebmann), the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, has a secret he carefully hides from public view: he is homosexual. When he falls in love with recruit Mario (Luka Dimic), his artificial heteronormative existence is shaken to the core. To a man like Eismayer, a gay relationship cannot be reconciled with the traditional understanding of what a soldier should be. Will he preserve his image of a tough-as-nails man’s man or follow his heart? Is there some way to do both? Based on real events.