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Thursday, Jan 16, 1986
Drama in Blonde (Drama in Blond)
Can a timid male bank clerk find happiness dressed as a woman in the dazzling world of cabaret? In a film by Lothar Lambert, what do you think? The undisputed king of Berlin underground cinema has turned out another relatively big-budget ($20,000) venture that, like Fraulein Berlin and Paso Doble (PFA, 1/85), retains the outrageous humor of his nascent, no-budget days. Lambert himself portrays the put-upon teller Gerhard, oppressed by the attentions of his domineering sister Hanna (Ulrike S.) and depressed by the affections of the girl next door (Dagmar Beiersdorf). At the invitation of a colleague he discovers a new home-away-from-home in the Travesty Club, a transvestite bar where Gerhard eventually makes his own, disastrous stage debut. Scenes in the bank, where Gerhard's exploits are digested daily by fellow workers (Albert Heins, Dorothea Moritz), are rivalled for humor only by the routines in the club, where transvestite stars like Joaquin La Habana and Tara O'Hara hold sway.
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