Movie: Transpapa

Top 8 Billed Cast

Luisa Sappelt
Luisa Sappelt

Maren

Devid Striesow
Devid Striesow

Sophia

Sandra Borgmann
Sandra Borgmann

Ulrike

Horst Sachtleben
Horst Sachtleben

Wolfgang

Florence Kasumba
Florence Kasumba

Tessi

Fritzi Haberlandt
Fritzi Haberlandt

Silke

Arno Kempf
Arno Kempf

Volker

Henriette Nagel
Henriette Nagel

Zora

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    Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her round the twist. But she also has a father who she hasn’t seen for years. When Maren decides to get in touch with him, her mother finally spills the beans: He now goes by the name of Sophia and lives as a woman – just what she needs! Irrespective of her vexation, Maren risks a meeting and finds in Sophia a person just as hormonal and puerile as herself – a person who would actually prefer to be her best friend, at best even her mother. Can Maren accept that this life makes her father happy? TRANSPAPA is a compassionate and funny story of gender role-breaking, tolerance and the search for identity.

  • Release Date

    2012-11-22

  • Average

    3.4

  • Rating:

    1.7 starts
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    Deutsch
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