The prescribed gender

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Movie
Original title The prescribed gender
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2001
length 62 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
production Oliver Tolmein ,
Bertram Rotermund
camera Jörn Staeger
cut Bertram Rotermund
occupation
  • Michel Reiter: as yourself
  • Elisabeth Müller: as yourself

The Prescribed Gender is a documentary from 2001 that tells the story of the suffering and life of two hermaphrodites .

action

"The ordained gender" is about the history of intersex people or hermaphrodites - but also about the wider social significance that society only wants to recognize the existence of two genders.
Michel Reiter, who was made into a girl, and Elisabeth Müller, who is genetically, but not hormonally, a man, tell in the film the price they had to pay to maintain society's idea of ​​normality.

background

The interview film was funded by the Hamburg Film Fund , the Board of Trustees for Young German Film , the Bremen Film Office and the Bremen State Media Center. The premiere of the film was on November 19, 2001 in the "Metropolis" in Hamburg. "The ordained gender" received the rating "valuable" from the film evaluation agency .

Reviews

"The authors have found interlocutors whose portraits give this trauma an impressive face"

- Der Tagesspiegel , culture section from September 12, 2002

"... The prescribed gender of Oliver Tolmein and Bertram Rotermund directs more attention to the fight against medical and legal paternalism ..."

- specific , issue 2, 2002

"A film about such a seldom dealt with is to be hoped for a wide circulation."

- taz Hamburg No. 6604 of November 19, 2001

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