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Harry and Harriet

4.2 average rating
4.2
German / 92 MIN. / 1990

The Genres

The Synopsis

A quiet, offbeat German dramedy about self-reinvention and the messy ways we try to escape ourselves. When a middle-aged woman decides to shed her old life and adopt the name “Harry,” her transformation unsettles family, friends, and lovers who can’t quite keep up. Blurring gender identity, midlife crisis, and dark humour, the film plays like a bittersweet character study — deadpan, gently absurd, and tinged with melancholy.

The Cast

Thomas GottschalkMandy PerrymentFiona FullertonHeinz HoenigHeinz MarecekJulia KentCharles GrayJochen BusseEddi ArentLinda JoyStephanie BeachamMaria PerschyKäte JaenickeEckhard PreußOtto RetzerDaniel FriedrichPetra WagnerBarbara vom BaurReiner BellersheimTheo MaalekJai LybelSabi DorrRobert DietlSabina TroogerFrank LenartAlexander ErteltAndrea SchoberEnrico BoetcherInga Brandenburg

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