The Last Taboo (2025)
• February 15th, 2025 • 1h 34min
Documentary
Overview
Hard to imagine, but true: According to current estimates, out of 500,000 active male football professionals worldwide, under ten (10) are openly homosexual. While homosexuality hardly plays a role in other areas of life today, the topic seems to be completely taboo in professional football. The feature-length documentary THE LAST TABOO lets those who broke exactly this taboo tell their very personal stories alongside Thomas Hitzlsperger. Like the British professional footballer Justin Fashanu (*1961 in London; † 1998 in London), who broke this taboo for the first time in 1990 and paid for it with his life. His niece Amal tells his story. Marcus Urban, on the other hand, was about to make the jump to the Bundesliga as a teenager and, by deciding to come out, he also went against his big dream. The stories of the US professional Collin Martin and the British player-coach Matt Morton, on the other hand, suggest that normality is not far away.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Radical Self Acceptance
Released on: 2021-12-10
Documentary
We are living in the time of a heteronormative society that antagonizes Queer people for their Being...
Mondo Cane 2000 -The Incredible
Released on: 1988-08-11
Documentary, Horror
The final official installment in the "Mondo Cane" series dares to go where no other Mondo film has ...
Myggen
Released on: 1996-02-23
Documentary
A portrait of Norway's best football player, Erik "Myggen" Mykland.
Union - Die besten aller Tage
Released on: 2024-04-04
Documentary
In 2019, Union Berlin was promoted to the Bundesliga. Four years later, the traditional East German ...
Corrupt Colour
Released on: 2023-12-30
Documentary, Music, Comedy
Corrupt Colour follows childhood friends and self-proclaimed internet pop-stars, Emily and Gia as th...
FC Roma
Released on: 2016-09-16
Documentary
A team of Romany football players try to overcome prejudice in this Czech documentary.
Arsenal: Season Review 1997-1998
Released on: 1998-10-01
Documentary
Arsenal, under the management of Arsene Wenger, managed to claw their way to the title after being c...
A Long Way From Heaven: The Rainbow Y Story
Released on: 2024-03-15
Documentary
The true story of the students of Brigham Young University's queer underground, as they lit the scho...
Im Westen ging die Sonne auf
Released on: 2002-10-22
Documentary
The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr...
Et eventyr i svart og hvitt
Released on: 2017-10-13
Documentary
A documentary about a football veteran who must fight the unthinkable fight against the club of his ...
Do I Sound Gay?
Released on: 2015-07-10
Documentary
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to un...
Alberto Spencer, Ecuatoriano de Peñarol
Released on: 2014-11-28
Documentary
Documentary about Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer, regarded as the best Ecuadorian ...
Dreams
Released on: 2019-01-12
Documentary
Specialist film crews, capturing beautiful, cinematic footage from around Russia using industry lead...
A Worm in the Heart
Released on: 2020-01-17
Documentary
Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway, this documentary details the current state of t...
Mother Saigon
Released on: 2023-04-22
Documentary
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Throu...