A Man's Girlhood

A Man's Girlhood examines in comic form the conundrums of intersexuality. Depicts the memories of the author, published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody, but was, following the taste of the time, dramatically oversubscribed. 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.

1919

1h 15min

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Erika Glässner
Helmut Krauss
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Lotte Stein
Hans Albers
Max Hochstetter
Olga Engl

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