The Mystery of Alexina

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The Mystery of Alexina ★★½ Mystere Alexina 1986

True story of Herculine Adelaide Barbin, a 19th-century French hermaphrodite, who, after growing up a woman, fell in love with another woman and was actually revealed to be a man. Subtitled. 86m/C VHS . FR Vuillemin, Valeri Stroh; D: Rene Feret; W: Jean Gruault.

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