Nights in black leather

Retrospective, US 1973, 100 min., engl. OV

By: Ignatio Rutkowski

With: Peter Berlin, Rick Jedin, Al Joffrey

Berlin makes his debut here under a second pseudonym, Peter Burian, which was quickly changed after the film to the star-making moniker Peter Berlin. The film itself underwent a name change from “Post Haste Hustle” to NIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER at behest of its distributor. Berlin’s first feature film is set all over the then-burgeoning gay mecca of early 1970s San Francisco, taking us to Land’s End, South of Market, the Tenderloin, and a low-rent Warhol-esque party as Peter explores the sexual side of the city.

Peter Berlin