Pierrot Lunaire (film)

Pierrot Lunaire
Directed by	Bruce LaBruce
Produced by	Tomas Liska Anna Mülter
Written by	Bruce LaBruce
Starring	Susanne Sachsse Luizo Vega Maria Ivanenko
Music by	Arnold Schoenberg
Cinematography	Tomas Liska
Distributed by	Die Lamb
Release dates	9 February 2014 (2014-02-09) (Berlin)
Running time	51 minutes
Country	Canada Germany
Language	German

Pierrot Lunaire is a Canadian/German film, which premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival.^[1]

Written and directed by Bruce LaBruce as an adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, the film adds a transgender interpretation to the work, starring Susanne Sachsse as a trans man Pierrot.^[2] The film originated as a theatrical production of Pierrot Lunaire, which LaBruce directed for Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer theatre in 2011.^[3]

The film won a Jury Award from the 2014 Teddy Award jury.^[4]

References

Films directed by Bruce LaBruce

Short films	Boy, Girl (1987) I Know What It's Like to Be Dead (1987) Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies (1988), co-directed with Candy Parker A Case for the Closet (1992) The Post Queer Tour (1992) Slam! (1992) Come As You Are (2000) Give Piece of Ass a Chance (2007) The Bad Breast, or The Case of Theda Lange (2010) Weekend in Alphaville (2010)

Feature films	No Skin Off My Ass (1993) Super 8½ (1994) Hustler White (1996), co-directed & written with Rick Castro Skin Flick / Skin Gang (1999) The Raspberry Reich (2004) Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) L.A. Zombie (2010) Gerontophilia (2013) Pierrot Lunaire (2014) Ulrike's Brain (TBA)

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