GERMANY · 1978

In a Year with 13 Moons

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
New German Cinema gender identity unrequited love social alienation sacrifice and regret identity transformation
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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.

Year1978
CountryGermany
DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
In a Year with 13 Moons poster

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