
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 SpenglerElvira Weishaupt
Ingrid CavenZora la rouge
Gottfried JohnAnton SaitzElisabeth TrissenaarIrene Weishaupt
Eva MattesMarie-Ann
Günther KaufmannChauffeur
Lilo PempeitSchwester Gudrun
Isolde BarthSybille
Karl ScheydtHacker
Walter BockmayerSeelen-FriedaGerhard ZwerenzBurghard HauserPeter KollekSaeuferBob DorsaySelbstmörderJanez BermezOskar Pleitgen (uncredited)
Rainer Werner FassbinderSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)