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Der erste bekanntgewordene Film, in der das Thema trans* skizziert wird, ist die US-Produktion „Glen or Glenda“ von Edward D. Wood Jr., der selbst ein Transvestit war. Der Film avancierte zum Kultfilm, war es doch 1953 noch ein Tabuthema das man kaum kannte, geschweige denn darüber sprach. Wood wollte mit dem Film für mehr Toleranz werben.
Bis heute gab es schließlich eine Reihe weiterer Produktionen, die sowohl in Spielfilmen, Dokumentationen oder auch ganzen Serien das komplette Thema mit Erklärungsversuchen aufgreifen oder es auch nur am Rande integrieren. Diese Liste soll einen Versuch darstellen die gefundenen Filme nach und nach im Einzelnen zu beschreiben und ihren Aufklärungscharakter darzustellen. Dafür nutze ich die Links der Internationalen Filmdatenbank IMDB
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- Glen or Glenda (1953)Glen or Glenda Drama | April 1953 (United States)
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Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.Writer: Edward D. Wood Jr.Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle TalbotSummary: "Glen or Glenda" tells two stories. One is about Glen, who secretly dresses as a woman but is afraid to tell his fiancée Barbara. The other is about Alan, a pseudohermaphrodite who undergoes a painful operation to become a woman. Both stories are told by Dr. Alton, who also delivers an earnest lecture on tolerance and understanding. A second narrator, The Scientist, delivers commentary which contains more philosophical pronouncements than facts. The film also has flashbacks-within-flashbacks and a strange dream sequence; Inspector Warren's investigation of a transvestite's suicide leads him to learn more about men in women's clothes; Johnny's wife leaves him when she discovers what he wears while she's away; Barbara is oblivious to her fiancé Glen's desire to wear her angora sweater; Satan invades Glen's nightmare; and The Scientist only offers cryptic advice like "Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep." —J. SpurlinPhotos
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Pfahl in meinem Fleisch (1969)
Funeral Parade of Roses Drama | September 13, 1969 (Japan) 7.9
Director: Toshio MatsumotoWriter: Toshio MatsumotoStars: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi JôSummary: While dealing drugs on the side, Gonda operates the Genet, a gay bar in Tokyo where he has hired a stable of transvestites to service the customers. The madame or lead "girl" of the bar is Leda, an older, old fashioned geisha-styled transvestite with who Gonda lives and is in a relationship. Arguably, the most popular of the girls working at the bar now is Eddie, a younger, modern transvestite. Like Leda, Eddie lives openly as a woman. Eddie's troubled life includes her father having deserted the family when she was a child, and having had a difficult relationship with her mother following, she who mocked Eddie's ability to be the man the of the family. Gonda enters into a sexual relationship with Eddie, who he promises to make madame of the bar, replacing Leda in both facets of his life, with Eddie having threatened to quit otherwise. While Leda suspects what Gonda and Eddie are up to, Gonda tells Leda what she wants to hear, much as he tells Eddie what she wants to hear. As this triangle plays itself out, what actually happens is affected by a joint history between Gonda and Eddie of which they are unaware. This film teeters between fiction and non-fiction as a secondary story is Eddie's friendship with a group of counter-culturalists, including filmmaker Guevara, whose making of a movie mirrors the making of this film. That balance tips into non-fiction as the actual actors in this and Guevara's movie talk about issues covered in this film, such as drug use, and sexuality, especially transvestism as the transvestite characters are played by real life transvestites. —HuggoPhotos
See all photos >> - Myra Breckinridge – Mann oder Frau? (1970)Myra Breckinridge - Mann oder Frau? Comedy | October 2, 1970 (West Germany) 4.5
Director: Michael SarneWriter: Gore Vidal, Michael Sarne, David GilerStars: Mae West, John Huston, Raquel WelchSummary: Myron Breckinridge (Rex Reed) is waiting for her sex-change operation while a stoned surgeon stumbles into the operating room. Before the drugged doctor begins Myron's operation, he counsels her. Myron persists and the doctor goes through with it. An enthusiastic audience observing the operation applauds the medical achievement and rises in a standing ovation. After the operation, Myron arrives in Hollywood as Myra Breckinridge (Raquel Welch) while in the rest of this movie, Myron pops up from time to time as Myra's alter ego. Myra goes to an acting academy owned by her uncle, Buck Loner (John Huston), a former cowboy star. The real reason for Myra's arrival is to claim her half of Uncle Buck's estate, to which she says she's entitled. Buck Loner stalls by giving her a job teaching the history of motion pictures. Buck Loner has several friends. One of them is Leticia Van Allen (Mae West), an ancient Hollywood talent scout. The sex-starved septuagenarian runs an acting agency "for leading men only". —alfiehitchie, RavenGlamDVDCollector ElectricLadyLandPhotos
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Die Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)
The Christine Jorgensen Story Biography, Drama, Romance | June 1970 (United States) 5.5
Director: Irving RapperWriter: Christine Jorgensen, Robert E. Kent, Ellis St. JosephStars: John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. RedekerSummary: A sex-change operation that changed "George" into "Christine" in 1950s Denmark.Photos
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Some of My Best Friends Are… (1971)
Some of My Best Friends Are... Drama | October 27, 1971 (United States) 5.9
Director: Mervyn NelsonWriter: Mervyn Nelson, Barbara RhodesStars: Tom Bade, James Murdock, Paul BlakeSummary: It's Christmas Eve at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, a place where patrons believe they can feel free to be themselves as opposed to the straight charade many portray in their outside lives. To be more accurate, they can portray what they truly want to portray, talk to others in as open an manner as they want about their struggles in being gay, and can strive toward or at least fantasize openly about their dreams. As Sadie Holzer states, she the bar's cook who just returned to work after a medical issue, those at the Blue Jay are like one big family, but a family of one's own choosing. She may only be partially correct as they have all chosen the Blue Jay as their home, but there are some family members who some would probably wish would just go away. One of those is Lita Joyce, who outwardly is just a fag hag, but who is truly just a ball buster in she only wanting to prove to herself she has what it takes to attract the opposite sex. She brought Scott, a pilot, into the bar one evening with Scott in turn immediately falling in love with regular Terry, a graphic artist, the two for who Lita seems to have it out in wanting to destroy their happiness. Another is Jim Paine, who middle aged Marvin Hocker tries unsuccessfully to pass off as his nephew, the two of them who are planning to travel to Rome for the holidays, with everyone knowing Jim is a gay-for-pay hustler and Marvin his latest sugar daddy. As many men hope that tonight will be a special night in achieving their dreams - or at least one dream within many they may have - they have to face the reality that there will be an end to the evening and an outside world to where they will return. —HuggoPhotos
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I Want What I Want (1972)
I Want What I Want Drama | June 2, 1972 (Ireland) 5.9
Director: John DexterWriter: Geoff Brown, Gillian Freeman, Gavin LambertStars: Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews, Jill BennettSummary: A 20-something son of a military officer feels like a woman trapped in a man's body. When he can hide it no longer, he falls out with his ladies'-man father and leaves home. Now what?Photos
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Hundstage (1975)
Hundstage Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | March 19, 1976 (West Germany) 8.0
Director: Sidney LumetWriter: Frank Pierson, P.F. Kluge, Thomas MooreStars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope AllenSummary: Based upon a real-life incident which occurred in August 1972 in which a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, was held siege by Sonny, a Vietnam veteran turned bank robber determined to steal enough money ($2500) for his "wife" (Leon, a man; the two, were, according to an onscreen TV news report, married in a church by a priest who was defrocked shortly after, although Leon says to the police that Sal is "married and has children") to undergo a sex change operation. (The real life character upon whom Leon is based did, in fact, get the operation.) On a hot summer afternoon, Sonny and two cohort, Stevie and Sal, go to rob the (fictional) First Savings Bank of Brooklyn. Stevie soon gets nervous and flees. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds there is not much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Captain Moretti of the NYPD, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city's entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees' safety. —alfiehitchie (updated by R.M. Sieger)Photos
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In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978)
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden Drama | November 17, 1978 (West Germany) 7.5
Director: Rainer Werner FassbinderWriter: Rainer Werner FassbinderStars: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried JohnSummary: Driven by the agony of unrequited love, the slaughterhouse worker and married father-of-one, Erwin Weishaupt, summons up the courage to become Elvira. As a result, rejected by friends and family, desperate Elvira seeks solace in all the wrong places, exposing herself to vitriolic contempt and vicious ridicule. As pained Elvira meanders through the grim roads of Frankfurt with Zora, the streetwalker, struggling to survive in a faceless urban environment defined by brutality, loneliness, and despair, she retraces memories of her troubled past. However, can she unearth something worth keeping? —Nick RiganasPhotos
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Totaler Sperrbezirk (1980)
Totaler Sperrbezirk Comedy, Fantasy, Musical | November 12, 1982 (West Germany) 6.7
Director: Richard ElfmanWriter: Richard Elfman, Matthew Bright, Martin NicholsonStars: Gene Cunningham, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Virginia RoseSummary: A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her. —Scott Murdock <scottm@kc.grapevine.com>Photos
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Dressed to kill (1980)
Triggerwarnung – Psychopathologisierend, ein Killer verkleidet als Frau mordetDressed to Kill Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | March 5, 1981 (West Germany) 7.1
Director: Brian De PalmaWriter: Brian De PalmaStars: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy AllenSummary: While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderer's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino, who's in charge of the case, is uncooperative in the investigation. —alfiehitchiePhotos
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Volúpia de Mulher (1984)
Volúpia de Mulher Drama 5.5
Director: John DooWriter: Milton Donara, Ody FragaStars: Helena Ramos, Romeu de Freitas, Vanessa AlvesSummary: When the travesty Lili "Oswaldo" Marlene brings the single mother Cristina and her baby to the hospital, Dr. Laura finds that the baby has a problem and asks what happened with Cristina to Lili. She explains that Cristina had intercourse with her boyfriend in the countryside and her father expelled her from home. She moves to the apartment of her acquaintance Carla (Alvamar Taddei), who is a whore, but she does not receive Cristina. She ends at Lili's apartment that supports her. Laura explains that the baby needs an expensive surgery to survive. Meanwhile Laura's boyfriend Marcos is looking for a nude model with a special face for his paintings and Laura offers the job to Cristina. But Carla's pimp invites Cristina to prostitute for him and offers a small fortune per program for her. What will Cristina do? —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilPhotos
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