Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to her game.
Acting
Renate Müller's razor-sharp timing sells every absurd layer of deception.
Costume
Tuxedos, gowns, and that iconic gender-fluid wardrobe that scandalized and delighted.
Direction
Schünzel's Weimar-era sophistication before he fled the Nazis.
Director
Reinhold Schünzel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made mere months before Hitler's rise, this was Weimar Berlin's defiant final party — director Schünzel, himself Jewish, fled to Hollywood in 1937.
The 1982 Blake Edwards remake starring Julie Andrews deliberately softened the gender politics; this original is messier, queered, and refuses neat resolution.
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