A Fairy for Dessert

A Fairy for Dessert

1992 · 85 min · ★ 4.0 · Drama

Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true.

Directed by Dagmar Beiersdorf · Written by Dagmar Beiersdorf

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