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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

John Cameron MITCHELL

USA2001 95min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Born a boy named Hansel, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the an 'angry inch'. Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band and encounters a lover/protoge in young Tommy Gnosis.

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John Cameron MITCHELL