Movie
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Overview
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'.
Details
- Release date
- 2001-07-20
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Music, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- New Line Cinema, Killer Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig
- Miriam Shor as Yitzhak
- Stephen Trask as Skszp
- Theodore Liscinski as Jacek
- Rob Campbell as Krzysztof
- Michael Aronov as Schlatko
- Andrea Martin as Phyllis Stein
- Ben Mayer-Goodman as Hansel - 6 years old
- Alberta Watson as Hansel's Mom
- Gene Pyrz as Hansel's Dad
- Michael Pitt as Tommy Gnosis
- Karen Hines as Tommy's Publicist
Crew
- John Cameron Mitchell - Director
- John Cameron Mitchell - Writer
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