A Man's Girlhood

A Man's Girlhood (1919)

Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren

Based on the semi-fictionalized autobiography of a trans and intersex person published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody. A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl and dissected after death.

Date of release
1919-10-03
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Drama
Director
Karl Grune, Paul Legband

Casting

Interesting facts

Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren, also known as Franziska, is a 1919 German film based on Karl M. Baer's Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years. The film depicts the tragic life of an intersex person.

Production and Advertising

The film was promoted as the first in a groundbreaking "Sexual-Ethical Films" series, framed as the diary of a man raised as a girl that exposes the fate of intersex individuals. Despite antisemitic protests against similar Weimar-era "enlightenment films," distributor Luna Film stressed this work never faced censorship or public backlash.

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