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Directed by | François Ozon |
Screenplay by | François Ozon |
Based on | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
Produced by | François Ozon |
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Cinematography | Manuel Dacosse |
Edited by | Laure Gardette |
Music by | Clément Ducol |
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Distributed by | Diaphana |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | France |
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Budget | €3.1 million[2] |
Peter von Kant is a 2022 French comedy drama film written and directed by François Ozon. It is a loose adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which he adapted into a film in 1972, but here with the sex of the principal characters changed from female to male. It is Ozon's second cinematic outing of a Fassbinder play after Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000).[3]
The film premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival as its opening film on 10 February 2022.[4]