TY - VIDEO ID - 138168706 TI - Hedwig and the angry inch AU - Mitchell, John Cameron AU - Vachon, Christine AU - Roumel, Katie AU - Koffler, Pamela R. AU - DeMarco, Frank G. AU - Trask, Stephen AU - Marcus, Andrew AU - DePrez, Thérèse AU - Phillips, Arianne AU - Martin, Andrea AU - Pitt, Michael AU - Watson, Alberta AU - Campbell, Rob AU - Liscinski, Theodore AU - Aronov, Michael AU - Shor, Miriam AU - Fine Line Features AU - New Line Cinema Corporation AU - Killer Films AU - Criterion Collection (Firm) PY - 2019 SN - 9781681435978 1681435977 PB - [New York, N.Y.] The Criterion Collection DB - UniCat KW - Transsexuals KW - Male-to-female transsexuals KW - Rock musicians KW - Punk rock musicians KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Identity (Philosophical concept) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138168706 AB - "With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll."-- ER -