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Runtime:

96 min.

Year of Production:

2003

Country:

Deutschland

Director:

Andrew Horn

Cast:

Klaus Nomi
Ann Magnuson
Gabriele Lafari
David McDermott
Page Wood
Tony Frere
Man Parrish
Kristian Hoffman
Ron Johnsen
Kenny Scharf
Anthony Scibelli
Alan Platt
Adrian
Joseph Arias
Calvin Churchman
Jay Jay French
Michael Halsband
Janus
Pamela Rosenthal
Ira Siff
Trude Sperber
David Bowie
Jon Cobert
Thomas Gottschalk
Martin Sheen

Production Company:

CV Films

Berlinale Section:

Panorama

Berlinale Category:

Documentary Film

Teddy Award:

Best Documentary/ Essay Film

It’s hard to say which made a greater impression - his voice or the way he looked with his luminously painted white face? Klaus Nomi’s countertenor register and his outrageous outfits – greatly admired by David Bowie, for whom he later designed costumes - soon made him an icon of New York’s underground scene. By the 1970s, he was an integral part of New York’s alternative culture, appearing in films, performing in clubs and making countless records. Nomi’s stage show oscillated between his own particular interpretations of Saint-Saëns “Samson and Delilah”, the Donna Summer hit “I Feel Love” and Chubby Checker’s “The Twist”. When he died in 1983 from an AIDS-related infection, he was by no means at the height of his popularity. Whether one encounters him on posthumous CD releases or commercials for “Jägermeister” bitters - Klaus Nomi is as much in the public eye today as he was during his lifetime. In his documentary, Andrew Horn tells the story of Klaus Nomi from his birth as Klaus Spender in Bavaria in 1944 to his later stardom in New York.The film includes excerpts from Nomi’s shows but also features interviews with his relatives, his former singing teacher and his many friends and colleagues. Klaus Nomi himself is even in on the proceedings - in the shape of a life-size mechanical doll created by the artist Pat Keck.

BIOGRAFIE Andrew Horn

FILMOGRAFIE Andrew Horn (selection)

2014 We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!  2003 The Nomi Song  1988 The Big Blue  1984 Doomed Love 

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