Austria, color, 110 min., 2018
Director: Reinhold Bilgeri
Starring: Markus Freistätter, Cornelius Obonya, Marianne Sägebrecht and Lili Epply
Genre: Biography/Drama
A lovable little film, which shows us a society profoundly marked by patriarchal hierarchy. In addition, it portrays an era of helplessness, which is unable to deal or cope with taboo topics such as intersexuality. (Vienna.at)
The year 1966 saw Austria passionately celebrate the success of its new world champion in women’s downhill skiing. In 2014, the same person was to cause public uproar of a similar scale with her appearance on the TV show Dancing Stars– this time as a man. This is the amazing story of Erik(a) Schinegger, a gripping production directed by Reinhold Bilgeri, starring Cornelius Obonya, Marianne Sägebrecht, Ulrike Beimpold and the exceptionally talented Markus Freistätter as Erika/Erik.
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