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Pierrot Lunaire
2014 | 51m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Bruce LaBruce |
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| Writer: | Bruce LaBruce |
| Staring: |
| Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!” | |
| Release Date: | Feb 09, 2014 |
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| Director: | Bruce LaBruce |
| Writer: | Bruce LaBruce |
| Genres: | Drama, Music |
| Keywords | transsexual, lgbt |
| Production Companies | Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 14, 2026 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Susanne Sachße | Pierrot Lunaire |
| Maria Ivanenko | |
| Paulina Bachmann | |
| Luizo Vega | |
| Mehdi Berkouki | |
| Boris Lisowski | |
| Krishna Kumar Krishnan | |
| Bruce LaBruce |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Albert Giraud | Poem |
| Tomas Liska | Director of Photography |
| Ismail Necmi | Director of Photography |
| Bruce LaBruce | Writer, Director |
| Arnold Schönberg | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Tomas Liska | Producer |
| Anna Mülter | Producer |
| Claus Matthes | Producer |
| Jürgen Brüning | Producer |
| Bruce LaBruce | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
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