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Victor/Victoria (1995)

Victor/Victoria poster
Directed by
Blake Edwards
Genre
musical film, LGBTQ-related film, LGBT-related television series
Country
Japan, United States
Runtime
2h 26m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in 1930s Paris pretends to be a female impersonator to find work as a singer. Her act becomes a hit and she falls in love with a man who is attracted to her male persona.

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What happens

Victor/Victoria is a 1995 videotaped television production of the Broadway musical of the same name written and directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York, Richard B. Shull and Gregory Jbara. The play's opening night performance on October 25, 1995 at the Marquis Theatre in New York City was filmed exclusively for Japanese television broadcast by NHK on December 23, 1995. It was directed for the stage by Edwards and directed for television by Matthew Diamond and Goro Kobayashi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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