The Danish Girl

(2015)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 6,011 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2015

Runtime: 119 мин

Country: Belgium, United Kingdom

Director: Tom Hooper

Cast: Эдди Редмэйн, Алисия Викандер, Маттиас Шонартс, Бен Уишоу, Sebastian Koch, Пип Торренс, Николас Вудесон, Эмбер Хёрд, Эмиральд Феннел, Adrian Schiller

Plot

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926. Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda are a happily married couple. Both are artists, Einar preferring landscapes and she portraits. One day Einar poses for a portrait of Gerda's while wearing a dress. This is initially done as a lark, as is the later attendance at a party dressed as a woman. However, Einar soon discovers that she is in fact a woman and over time prefers being Lili. At first she and Gerda try to have her situation "cured" but this leads nowhere (other than to many doctors trying to have Lili locked up as a pervert and/or lunatic). Her voyage of self-discovery will ultimately lead to her undergoing the first ever sex-change operation.