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'.
Why it matters
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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- Runtime
- 95 min
- Released
- 2001-07-20
- Studio
- New Line Cinema
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- German
- TMDB score
- 7.4
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