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Based on a true story, Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything") and Alicia Vikander ("Ex Machina") play a bohemian married couple Einar and Gerda Wegener, apparently happily married and trying for a child in 1920's Copenhagen.
Convinced he is Lili, a woman trapped in a man's body, Einar boldly accepts his true self and starts living as a woman. But, to everyone's surprise, the radical change is not an ephemeral caprice. After all, Einar is determined to live his new life to the fullest.
The film is based on the novel The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff, and as such may duplicate some fictionalized or speculative content of the novel. However, director Tom Hooper has stated that the film is closer to the true story than Ebershoff's book.
Nov 24, 2015 · Yes. The true story behind The Danish Girl confirms that Einar Wegener's transformation into Lili Elbe ultimately led to her death. She died from paralysis of the heart due to organ rejection roughly three months after undertaking her fifth and final sex-change operation in June 1931.
Based on a true story, The Danish Girl is an extraordinary tale of love, commitment and revolutionary behaviour.
Nov 26, 2015 · Written for the screen by Lucinda Coxon and based on David Ebershoff’s novel of the same title, “The Danish Girl” is a fictionalized biography of Lili Elbe (as Einar Wegener came to be known),...
Nov 25, 2015 · In The Danish Girl, based on a true story, Redmayne plays Lili Elbe, a Danish trans woman and, as the movie asserts, one of the first known individuals to undergo gender confirmation...
