Film

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell

  • Comedy, Music, Drama
  • 95 min
  • R

An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey.

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.

ComedyMusicDramarock 'n' rolltransvestismtranssexualitysingerglam rocklgbtself identityrock odysseymilitary bratrestaurant chainlgbt in the militarychild molestation
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