Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Volker Spengler
Elvira Weishaupt
Ingrid Caven
Zora la rouge
Gottfried John
Anton Saitz
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Irene Weishaupt
Eva Mattes
Marie-Ann
Günther Kaufmann
Chauffeur
Lilo Pempeit
Schwester Gudrun
Isolde Barth
Sybille
Karl Scheydt
Hacker
Walter Bockmayer
Seelen-Frieda
Gerhard Zwerenz
Burghard Hauser
Peter Kollek
Saeufer
Bob Dorsay
Selbstmörder
Janez Bermez
Oskar Pleitgen (uncredited)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Günther Holzapfel
Angestellter H. H. Brei (uncredited)
Ursula Lillig
Putzfrau (uncredited)
Augusto Pinochet
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Volker Spengler
Elvira Weishaupt
Ingrid Caven
Zora la rouge
Gottfried John
Anton Saitz
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Irene Weishaupt
Eva Mattes
Marie-Ann
Günther Kaufmann
Chauffeur
Lilo Pempeit
Schwester Gudrun
Isolde Barth
Sybille
Karl Scheydt
Hacker
Walter Bockmayer
Seelen-Frieda
Gerhard Zwerenz
Burghard Hauser
Peter Kollek
Saeufer
Bob Dorsay
Selbstmörder
Janez Bermez
Oskar Pleitgen (uncredited)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Günther Holzapfel
Angestellter H. H. Brei (uncredited)
Ursula Lillig
Putzfrau (uncredited)
Augusto Pinochet
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Volker Spengler
Elvira Weishaupt
Ingrid Caven
Zora la rouge
Gottfried John
Anton Saitz
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Irene Weishaupt
Eva Mattes
Marie-Ann
Günther Kaufmann
Chauffeur
Lilo Pempeit
Schwester Gudrun
Isolde Barth
Sybille
Karl Scheydt
Hacker
Walter Bockmayer
Seelen-Frieda
Gerhard Zwerenz
Burghard Hauser
Peter Kollek
Saeufer
Bob Dorsay
Selbstmörder
Janez Bermez
Oskar Pleitgen (uncredited)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Günther Holzapfel
Angestellter H. H. Brei (uncredited)
Ursula Lillig
Putzfrau (uncredited)
Augusto Pinochet
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)