In a Year with 13 Moons

Year: 1978

Runtime: 124 mins

Language: German

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

DramaHumanity and the world around usMoving relationship storiesPowerful stories of heartbreak and sufferingEmotional teen coming-of-age stories

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working‑class butcher, sacrificed everything for love by undergoing a sex change for a lover who later abandoned her. Now isolated and haunted by that loss, she grapples with reconciling her former life as a butcher with her new identity, seeking acceptance and a sense of purpose.

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