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Director	Monika Treut
Year	1988
Country	West Germany
Runtime	1h 24m
Language	German In German with English subtitles
Format	DCP
TMDB	View entry

Synopsis

In the Oz of San Francisco, German journalist Ina Blum, researching an article on the nature of romantic love, finds exactly what she was looking for — and then some — thanks to the help of lesbian strip‑show barker Susie Sexpert (Susie Bright), drag king Ramona (Shelly Mars), and her mysteriously kinky neighbors (Cléo Dubois and Fakir Musafar). A fiercely controversial work of lesbian cinema, it led Die Zeit to proclaim: “Films like Monika Treut’s are destroying cinema.”

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