Pioneering trans writer Max Wolf Valerio talks about his life and experience of transition in this groundbreaking documentary short, one of the very first portraits of a trans man on film, directed and produced by noted filmmaker Monika Treut.
Direction
Treut's sensitive, unobtrusive approach centers Max's voice.
Production
Historical significance as early trans masculine documentary portrait.
Director
Monika Treut
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the New Queer Cinema movement, this predates widespread mainstream trans representation by decades.
Max Wolf Valerio later became a published poet and writer; Monika Treut continued as a major figure in queer German cinema.
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