Sentences with phrase «first sex change operation»

Nevertheless, the cinematic adventure's raison d'etre remains the historic decision to undergo the world's first sex change operation.

A compelling cinematic adventure revolving around the historic decision to undergo the world's first sex change operation.

Not exact matches

And it's hard to imagine a more hospitable moment than right now for a commercially viable movie based on the life of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter in the 1920s who — with the help of a supportive wife (played by Ex Machina and Man From U.N.C.L.E. newcomer Alicia Vikander)-- became the first person in history to undergo a male - to - female sex - change operation.

Kidman will play Einar Wegener, the male Danish artist who in 1931 underwent the world's first sex - change operation.

But eventually she wants to be a woman and is one of the first people to get a sex change operation (which happened in the roaring»20s).

The film is one of the first mainstream movies to tackle transgender issues; it focuses on the life of Einar Wegenar, who underwent a sex - change operation in the early 1920s.

A major issue pushed by the LGBT movement, trans - genderism (as opposed to trans - gender dressing) did not pop up the day before yesterday but became an issue as far back as 1930 when a surgeon in Germany performed the first and thereby a risky series of operations that changed a man's sex by removing his male parts and constructing a vagina with ovaries.

The Danish Girl (R for sexuality and full - frontal nudity) Transgender biopic, set in Copenhagen in the Twenties, recounting the pioneering procedure undergone by Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne), one of the first recipients of a sex - change operation.

Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw review The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper's film about the first person to request a sex change operation.