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In a Year of 13 Moons

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Original title

In Einem Jahr mit 13 Mondenaka

AKA

In a Year with 13 Moons

Year

1978

Running time

124 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenwriter

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Music

Peer Raben

Cinematography

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producer

Tango-Film

Genre

Drama | Melodrama. Transgender / Transsexuality

Synopsis

When his wealthy male lover dumps him, Erwin Weishaupt makes a desperate attempt to win his man back by having a sex change operation. But the sacrifice is doomed to failure, and as time passes, the doubly-rejected Erwin, now Elvira, is beaten down by the cruelties and utter loneliness of her life. The relentless despair eventually deepens to the point where she can no longer sustain herself..

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Rankings Position

#69 Best German Movies of all time
#129 Best LGTBIQ+ Productions

Critics' reviews

"The movie is a relentlessly uncompromiaing, keening cri de coeur, a movie that has turned a wake into a work of art."

Jay Scott: The Globe and Mail
"It can be tedious and silly. Yet Fassbinder is too brilliant to be dismissed."

Bruce McCabe: Boston Globe
"In Fassbinder's portrait of the gleamingly rebuilt Frankfurt as an emotionally devastated wasteland, Fascism-the need of some to dominate and of others to endure-comes off as a woeful constant of the heart."

Richard Brody: The New Yorker
"Comes down to a series of operatic examinations of questions pertaining to free will, chance, cause and effect, moral responsibility, self-sacrifice and spiritual atonement."

Ed Gonzalez: Slant
"The subject invites easy compassion and pity, but Fassbinder's icy camera style keeps us at arm's length, calling up a much more complex response."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader

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