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An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Title: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Release Date: 20 Jul 2001

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Comedy, Music, Drama

Director: New Line Cinema, Killer Films

Production Companies: New Line Cinema, Killer Films

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'.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.4 (386 votes)

Cast

  • Hedwig: John Cameron Mitchell
  • Yitzhak: Miriam Shor
  • Skszp: Stephen Trask
  • Jacek: Theodore Liscinski
  • Krzysztof: Rob Campbell
  • Schlatko: Michael Aronov
  • Phyllis Stein: Andrea Martin
  • Hansel - 6 years old: Ben Mayer-Goodman
  • Hansel's Mom: Alberta Watson
  • Hansel's Dad: Gene Pyrz
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