A Star Named Sonja

Release date: 2014-10-23
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Genres: Documentary
The rise and fall of the biggest star of travesty show in Prague in the nineties. The film tells the story of a man with shocking sincerity and openness in confession of two different personalities, woman and man living in one body.
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