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I Am My Own Woman is a film of genre Drama directed by Rosa von Praunheim released in USA on 29 april 1994 with Ovo Maltine

I Am My Own Woman (1992)

I Am My Own Woman
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Released in USA 29 april 1994
Length 1h31
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Documentary
Rating71% 3.595363.595363.595363.595363.59536

I Am My Own Woman (German: Ich bin meine eigene Frau ) is a 1992 German film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film, a documentary-drama, follows the life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East German transsexual who survived the Nazis; the repression of the Communists and helped start the German gay liberation movement. The film is based on Mahlsdorf's autobiography: Ich bin meine eigene Frau, published in 1992, published in English as I Am My Own Woman (1995) and I Am My Own Wife (2004).

Synopsis

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a male to female transsexual, recounts incidents from her eventful life. Now elderly, she runs the Gründerzeit Museum, fulfilling her dream of living as a woman from the turn of 20th century. Scenes of her life are dramatized. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.

Actors

Ovo Maltine

(Herself)Heiner Carow

(Himself)
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