Let Me Die a Woman

1977

Action / Documentary

5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 570 570

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Plot summary

A documentary on the work of sex-change specialist Leo Wollman, including interviews with Wollman and a few of his patients, with an illustrated lecture on the various aspects of trans-identity plus actual footage of a gender reassignment operation.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

This movie was informative, but the soft core

This movie was informative, but the soft core porn scenes, frightening music, and bad acting took away from the overall message that transsexuals are not human rejects but people who want to live as normally as possible, but can't always make that normality a reality. I wish someone would make a more sparkling follow up documentary to this one. I did gain a new perspective from watching it.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Quasi documentary directed by "the female Ed Wood

Quasi documentary directed by "the female Ed Wood" Doris Wishman dealing with Transexualism. Surprisingly sympathetic to their subjects for what is basically an exploitative Mondo film at heart. Features interviews with various transexuals and cross dressers, a real life sex change surgery (difficult to watch. especially if your a dude), the infamous chisel scene (a breasted dude attempts to remove his own penis using a chisel and a hammer with predictbly disastrous results), and a brief early performance from Harry Reems of Deep Throat fame, amongst other Porn chic films of the 70's. Not really sure if I would recommend this to anyone. The material covered isn't really of much interest to me, but is worth seeing for people interested in Mondo as a style, which I am. Definently features some scenes that are not easily forgotten though.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Let Me Die a Woman is a film

Let Me Die a Woman is a film most people didn't know existed. Only Doris Wishman could have brought together elements of high school health class and soft core pornography in a semi-documentary about transsexualism (the preferred term of the time). Hosted by Dr. Leo Wollman and shot sometime in the early 1970's, the movie uses a combination of actors and real members of the transgender community to expose the public to a then relatively unknown topic. However because it is a Doris Wishman film, her trademark overdubbing, kitschy music, and somewhat campy tone can obscure the extremely relevant subject matter. Provided as instruction or titillation (or both) the audience is shown in clinical detail the anatomy of various transgender subjects, as well as dramatic depictions of their sex acts. Let Me Die a Woman features several interviews with transgender persons revealing intimate details of their lives, highlighting the individual struggles each one has been through. Despite the unmistakably exploitive elements of her film, Wishman seems to truly empathize with her subjects and shows compassion for the difficulties they face. Let Me Die a Woman is an important milestone in transgender cinema that should still interest a modern audience.
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