
Keywords
- Doing Gender
- Equity
- Gender
- Made in Germany
- Next Generation: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
- Pioneers
- Screen: Germany
- Sooner Europe Docs: New Perspectives
- Sooner Exclusives
- history
- research
- science
- women
Actors
- Barbara Romaner
Director
- Iris Fegerl
Documentary
55min
16+
DE
Germany
2019
Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.
Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.
The female wax portraits had long puzzled researchers: Nobly dressed, she holds a scalped brain in her lap. The portrait stands amid a anatomical models that were considered innovative for 18th century medicine.
A lost document now reveals her extraordinary story: her relationship to the pope and the 80 casts of male sexual organs that turn conventional ideas upside down.