Directed by : João Pedro RODRIGUES
Year of production : 2009 Country : PORTUGAL, FRANCE Length : 133 minutes
TO DIE LIKE A MAN
Once upon a time there was a war… In the darkness of the night, a young soldier goes AWOL.
Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbon’s drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from younger artists threatens her star status.
Under pressure from her young boyfriend Rosário to assume her female identity, the sex change operation that will transform her into a woman, Tonia struggles against her deeply-held religious convictions. If, on the one hand, she wants to be the woman that Rosário so desires, on the other, she knows that before God she can never be that woman. And her son, whom she abandoned when he was a child, now a deserter, comes looking for her.
Tonia discovers that she’s ill. To get away from all her troubles she travels to the count
João Pedro RODRIGUES - Director
João Pedro RODRIGUES - Script / Dialogue
Participation João Rui GUERRA DA MATA - Script / Dialogue
Rui CATALÃO - Script / Dialogue
Gonçalo FERREIRA DE ALMEIDA - Maria Bakker
Chandra MALATITCH - Zé Maria
Fernando SANTOS - Tonia
Alexander DAVID - Rosário
Miguel LOUREIRO - Paula
Fernando GOMES - Teixeira
André MURRAÇAS - Dr. Felgueiras
Cindy SCRASH - Irene
Jenny LARRUE - Jenny
Film poster © DR
Production
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