Virgin Machine (New Restoration)

Sun Dec 07 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148-16ND, United States | Philadelphia

Lightbox Film Center
Publisher/HostLightbox Film Center
Virgin Machine (New Restoration) Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum) is a German journalist researching an article about the nature of romantic love—something she desperately needs, given her dysfunctional relationships with former lover Heinz (Gad Klein) and brother Bruno (Marcelo Uriona). In the Oz of San Francisco, Dorothee finds exactly what she was looking for—and then some—thanks to the help of lesbian strip show barker Susie Sexpert (Susie Bright), drag king Ramona (Shelly Mars), and her mysteriously kinky neighbors (Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar). When Dorothy surfaces like a dazzled tourist on the wilder shores of the city’s thriving lesbian community, she has discovered her true sexuality…and left some illusions behind.
Part German Expressionist satire, part sapphic travelogue, Monika Treut’s Virgin Machine (Die Jungfrauenmaschine) is a seminal—and fiercely controversial—work of lesbian cinema. (Monika Treut, Germany, 1988, 84 min.) In English and German with English subtitles

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800 Mifflin St, Philadelphia, PA 19148-16ND, United States

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