In a Year of 13 Moons
- Volker Spengler: Elvira Weishaupt
- Ingrid Caven: the red Zora
- Gottfried John: Anton Saitz
- Elisabeth Trissenaar: Irene
- Eva Mattes: Marie -Ann
- Günther Kaufmann: chauffeur
- Lieselotte Pempeit: Sister Gudrun
- Isolde Barth: Sybille
- Karl Scheydt: Christoph Hacker
- Walter Bockmayer: Soul Frieda
- Peter Kollek: Drunkard
- Bob Dorsay: Stadtstreicher
- Janoz Bermez: Oscar Pleitgen
- Günther Holzapfel: Employee
- Ursula Lillig: Housekeeper
In a Year with 13 Moons is a film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the year 1978. Volker Spengler plays the lead role as Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt.
Content
The film tells the last five days in the life of Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt, a transsexual who is neither with you nor with others at peace. For the love of a man he was for his wife. But love was one-sided, as so often in the movies. Fassbinder, and as Elvira finds in her new existence no luck She seeks refuge at once familiar people. When they met only with rejection, ridicule and contempt, their life ends tragically.
Criticism
" Desert polemic stands next poetic sensibility, in addition to popular fiction literary cross-references to Doblin and Schopenhauer; Shock images contrast with sentimental idylls. One of the most intimate Fassbinder films, the shaking up its radical subjectivity. "
Comments
Declaration on film Title: In the opening credits it says " Every seventh year is a year of the moon, especially a lot of people are suffering in the depression. However, if a lunar year is also a year with 13 new moons, such as 1978, it comes to personal tragedies. "
The film can also be viewed as an accounting Fassbinder with Frankfurt, which increasingly became the prototype of a socially cold and dominated by money major city in the 1970s.
Cooper is named as editor, although Juliane Lorenz the film section.
Cooper was also responsible for equipment and costumes.
In a Year with 13 Moons is one out of the most personal and most necessary Fassbinder's films from a private situation. In May 1978, Armin Meier had taken his own life after Fassbinder had separated from him. Fassbinder tormented feelings of guilt and self-doubt; He processed this personal crisis with the film.