Octopusalarm
A film by Elisabeth Scharang
CAST Alex Jürgen
SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTOR Elisabeth Scharang
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Josef Neuper, Elisabeth Scharang, Christian Schneider
SOUND ENGINEER William Franck, Norbert Becwar
EDITOR Christine Öllinger
MUSIC garish
PRODUCTION MANAGER Peter Thomsen
PRODUCER Veit Heiduschka
PRODUCTION COMPANY Wega-Film
TECHNICAL DATA Blow-up 35mm (Original: DV-Cam; Super 16mm), 1:1.85/25fps; 107 min
With support from the Austrian Film Institute, the Vienna Film Fund, the television department of the ORF (film-TV agreement).
Austrian distribution: Poly Film. World sales: Austrian Film Commission
Synopsis
A young girl learns at the age of 12 that she’s actually a boy. At 26, after years of self-destructive behaviour, she begins to ask herself why she, as a person of indeterminate gender, was forced into the body of a female. Alex Jürgen is an intersexual, a hermaphrodite, a person who fails to conform to the world’s precise division into male and female
