Transpapa

Transpapa

90 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 22, 2012

Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her round the twist. But she also has a father who she hasn’t seen for years. When Maren decides to get in touch with him, her mother finally spills the beans: He now goes by the name of Sophia and lives as a woman – just what she needs! Irrespective of her vexation, Maren risks a meeting and finds in Sophia a person just as hormonal and puerile as herself – a person who would actually prefer to be her best friend, at best even her mother. Can Maren accept that this life makes her father happy? TRANSPAPA is a compassionate and funny story of gender role-breaking, tolerance and the search for identity.

Transpapa

90 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 22, 2012

Transpapa
Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her round the twist. But she also has a father who she hasn’t seen for years. When Maren decides to get in touch with him, her mother finally spills the beans: He now goes by the name of Sophia and lives as a woman – just what she needs! Irrespective of her vexation, Maren risks a meeting and finds in Sophia a person just as hormonal and puerile as herself – a person who would actually prefer to be her best friend, at best even her mother. Can Maren accept that this life makes her father happy? TRANSPAPA is a compassionate and funny story of gender role-breaking, tolerance and the search for identity.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers teamWorx, ZDF
Original title Transpapa
Directors Sarah-Judith Mettke
Writers Sarah-Judith Mettke

Cast

Luisa Sappelt

as Maren

Devid Striesow

as Sophia

Sandra Borgmann

as Ulrike

Horst Sachtleben

as Wolfgang

Florence Kasumba

as Tessi

Arno Kempf

as Volker

Henriette Nagel

as Zora