Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
Jakobs Bruder
Jakob and Lorenz are brothers who couldn't be more different: While Jakob is a successful, dogged star chef, Lorenz is not particularly successful in his job or financial matters, but clearly has more fun in life. One day, when he persuades his brother to visit their mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, the siblings set off in their car, picking up a punkette who is traveling as a hitchhiker. It is an enlightening journey for all of them through the northern German wasteland.
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Jakob and Lorenz are brothers who couldn't be more different: While Jakob is a successful, dogged star chef, Lorenz is not particularly successful in his job or financial matters, but clearly has more fun in life. One day, when he persuades his brother to visit their mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, the siblings set off in their car, picking up a punkette who is traveling as a hitchhiker. It is an enlightening journey for all of them through the northern German wasteland.
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Genre:TV Movie, Drama, Family
Written By:Daniel Walta, Oliver Pautsch
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Runtime:90 minutes
Studio:NDR
Cast
Daniel Walta
Director
Klaus J. Behrendt
Jakob Goldt
Christoph Maria Herbst
Lorenz Goldt
Sophie Rogall
Lara Bergmann
Hannelore Elsner
Anna Goldt
Wolfgang Packhäuser
Miros
Vassily Kazakos
Miros (jung)
Julia-Maria Köhler
Anna Goldt(jung)
Waldemar Kobus
Matthias Goldt
Zacharias Preen
Hannes
Astrid Posner
Sandra
Frédéric Vonhof
Arzt
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