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Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Based on Mitchell's and Stephen Trask's 1998 stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it accompanies Hedwig Robinson, a gay East German rock singer.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell. The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band.
Aug 31, 2001 · With John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski. A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
Nov 12, 2021 · The cult film Hedwig and the Angry Inch was released 20 years ago. Leila Latif explores the enduring revolutionary power of an unlikely love story.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 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.
Jul 20, 2001 · 92% Tomatometer 117 Reviews. 93% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings. A German emigrant living in a trailer in Kansas is the victim of a botched sex-change operation.
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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH National Tour. Official site for the Tony Award-winning musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH: Schedule, Tickets, Photos, Video.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A German emigrant living in a trailer in Kansas is the victim of a botched sex-reassignment operation. Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theater hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" tells the story of the "internationally ignored" rock singer, Hedwig, and the search for stardom and love.
We meet Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) working with her band in a local restaurant near the salad bar as she exclaims that shes the internationally ignored rock singer who has traveled from Communist Berlin.
Jul 20, 2001 · Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”
