Films: Hedwig and the angry inch

                    
Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, Hedwig and The Angry Inch tells the story of an "internationally ignored" rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love. Born a boy named Hansel whose life's dream is to find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the aforementioned "angry inch". Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band and encounters a lover/protege in young Tommy Gnosis, who eventually leaves her, steals her songs and becomes a huge rock star.

A bitter yet witty Hedwig with her pan-Slavic band, The Angry Inch, shadows Tommy's stadium tour, performing in near-empty restaurants for bewildered diners and a few die-hard fans. Through a collage of songs, flashbacks and animation, Hedwig tells her life story while on a tour of chain strip-mall seafood restaurants, trying to capitalize on her tabloid celebrity as the supposed ex-lover of famed rock star, Tommy Gnosis. Somewhere between the crab cakes and the cramped motel rooms, between the anguish and the acid-wash, she pursues her dreams and discovers the origin of love.

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27 Awards, including:

  • 2001 Sundance Film Festival: Directing Award, Audience Award
  • 2001 Berlin International Film Festival: Best Feature Film
  • 2001 Seattle International Film Festival: Best Actor
  • 2001 San Francisco International Film Festival: Best First Feature
  • 2002 Satellite Awards: Best Director, Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical, Best Actor Performance, Best Sound
  • 2002 American Choreography Awards, USA: Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film
  • 2002 Golden Globes, USA: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
SCREENINGS
  • 5 Oct, 21:10, 750 RUB
    Closing night
    PIK, Hall 1