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Harry and Harriet
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.
Cast
- Thomas Gottschalk as Harry
- Mandy Perryment as Harriet
- Fiona Fullerton as Catherine
- Heinz Hoenig as Michael
- Heinz Marecek as Peter Graf
- Julia Kent as Jenny
- Charles Gray as Satan
- Jochen Busse as Urologist
- Eddi Arent as Psychiatrist
- Linda Joy as Lorelei Schneider
- Stephanie Beacham as Christine Petersen
- Maria Perschy as Ruth Olsen
Details
- Director
- Cyril Frankel
- Released
- July 18, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Studio
- K.S. Film, Roxy Film and Monaco Film
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 4.7 / 10 from 12 votes
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