From a man's girlhood
| Movie | |
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| Original title | From a man's girlhood |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | approx. 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 21 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julius Rode , Paul Legband |
| script | Beate Schach , Karl Grune |
| production | Luna Film GmbH , Berlin |
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The film adaptation of the biography of the intersex person Karl M. Baer from 1919 is from a man's girlhood .
action
The silent film follows the author's memories, which were published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under his pseudonym NOBody, but was dramatically overdrawn in line with the taste of the time.
A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl, and dissected after death.
background
The premiere of the film was on October 3, 1919 in the Passage-Theater Unter den Linden in Berlin.
The film is now considered lost .
criticism
"This diary of a man who was considered a girl until the twenties of his life depicts the fate of a double sex in poignant pictures. In
ancient times these unfortunate people were the subject of thought and artistic creation."
“Erika Glässner embodies pseudo-hermaphroditism in the self-denying art of characterization. It depicts the unhappy afflicted in exciting scenes, as a poor human child of indeterminate gender, scenes that capture all the tragedy of the sexual intermediate stage. "
Web links
- From a man's girlhood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1500 meters, 5 acts
- ^ Police, Munich: Ban (No. 34060, 34061, 34062, 34063, 34064), November 1919, see also film censorship #Kaiserreich
- ↑ Joseph Garncarz: From a man's girl years (1919). University of Cologne , accessed on April 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ "Cinema - the big dream business" (series). Der Spiegel , October 11, 1950, accessed on April 26, 2015 (German).