Octopus Alarm

Octopus Alarm

1.0IMDb Score
Released:2006-02-11
Duration:108 min
Country:Austria
Director:Elisabeth Scharang
Actors:Alex Jurgen
Production:Wega Film

Overview:

Alex is intersex. Although he has XY chromosomes, his sex is ambiguous. When Alex was an infant, his mother authorised genital reassignment surgery, and he was thereafter raised female. Now Alex is an adult, and he is consumed by feelings of anger and loss. After meeting other "XY women" and doing a lot of soul-searching, he decides he wants to live as a man.

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