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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2001 · TMDB 7.4

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell

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'.

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A rock musical about a transgender East German singer who undergoes a botched sex change and forms a band to escape to America, using glam rock to explore themes of identity and love.

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