In a Year with 13 Moons

Name: In a Year with 13 Moons
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Released: 1978

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

gender identity unrequited love social alienation sacrifice and regret identity transformation

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Synopsis

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

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