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Music director
  
Peer Raben

Duration
  

Country
  
West Germany

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Producer
  
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Language
  
German

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Director
  
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer
  
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Release date
  
17 November 1978 (1978-11-17)

Cast
  
Volker Spengler
(Erwin/Elvira Weishaupt),
Ingrid Caven
(Zora la rouge),
Gottfried John
(Anton Saitz),
Elisabeth Trissenaar
(Irene Weishaupt),
Eva Mattes
(Marie-Ann),
Günther Kaufmann
(Chauffeur)

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In a Year of 13 Moons (German: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Volker Spengler. The film was made in response to the suicide of Fassbinder's lover at the time, Armin Meier. In a "Top 10" list of his own films, Fassbinder placed In a Year of 13 Moons second, after Beware of a Holy Whore.

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Plot

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The film recounts the last few days in the life of Elvira (Volker Spengler), a transsexual woman formerly known as Erwin. After being beat up for trying to buy sex in a park, she returns home to her longtime lover Christoph (Karl Scheydt), who's been away for six weeks. Christoph abuses her verbally and physically, and when he announces he's leaving for good, she desperately tries to stop him, only to be rescued by her friend Zora (Ingrid Caven). We watch as Elvira and Zora visit a slaughterhouse and the orphanage where Elvira grew up, and her later contacts with her family and former lover Anton Saitz (Gottfried John), as she attempts to come to terms with the consequences of her decision to change her sex. The film ends with the suicide of the main character after her subliminal cries for help go by unnoticed.

Cast

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  • Volker Spengler as Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt
  • Ingrid Caven as Rote Zora
  • Gottfried John as Anton Saitz
  • Elisabeth Trissenaar as Irene Weishaupt
  • Eva Mattes as Marie-Ann Weishaupt
  • Günther Kaufmann as J. Smolik, chauffeur
  • Lilo Pempeit as Sister Gudrun (as Liselotte Pempeit)
  • Isolde Barth as Sybille
  • Karl Scheydt as Christoph Hacker
  • Walter Bockmayer as Soul-Frieda
  • Peter Kollek as alcoholic
  • Bob Dorsay as city tramp
  • Gerhard Zwerenz as Burghard Hauser, writer

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    References

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