Rent

New York in the 1990s: Filmmaker Mark and musician Roger can no longer pay the rent on their flat. In German language with Subtitles.

Their landlord wants them to move out so that he can renovate the flat and rent it out at a high price. Bohemians and homeless people everywhere are to be driven out of the hip East Village. When drug addict Mimi and drag queen Angel turn up, Mark and Roger's world is further shaken up.

Jonathan Larson modelled his musical, which premiered in 1996, on Puccini's La Bohème but moved the action to New York's East Village in the 1990s. Its bohemians are young people struggling for success and money to pay the rent, and Mimi is not suffering from tuberculosis but from AIDS. Rent  takes up controversial topics such as homophobia, AIDS and racism, but wraps them up in a rousing musical mix of romantic, passionate ballads and electrifying rock songs.Rent was honoured with both the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama and ran for over 5000 performances on Broadway for 12 years.