Drama
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.
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Written by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Günther Kaufmann
Chauffeur
Isolde Barth
Sybille
Gottfried John
Anton Saitz
Ingrid Caven
Zora la rouge
Ursula Lillig
Putzfrau (uncredited)
Lilo Pempeit
Schwester Gudrun
Eva Mattes
Marie-Ann
Volker Spengler
Elvira Weishaupt
Augusto Pinochet
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Karl Scheydt
Hacker
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Irene Weishaupt
Gerhard Zwerenz
Burghard Hauser
Peter Kollek
Saeufer
Bob Dorsay
Selbstmörder
Janez Bermez
Oskar Pleitgen (uncredited)
Günther Holzapfel
Angestellter H. H. Brei (uncredited)

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