Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig, a trans woman from Eastern Germany, decides to undergo surgery so she can emigrate to the US as the wife of an American GI. Although the operation is not a hundred percent successful (an “angry inch” of manhood remains), Hedwig keeps the faith. Once in America, she starts celebrating her new life as the lead singer of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.John Cameron Mitchell's post-punk neo-glam rock musical became an absolute favourite with festival crowds and was laden with prizes. In 2010, Mitchell once again thrilled audiences with his outrageously subversive romcom Shortbus, a film situated mainly in the bedrooms and underground sex clubs of New York. The American Film Rating System, however, was not amused to be confronted with a scene in which one of the men in a gay threesome hums the national anthem into the arse of one of his partners.