Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

Loan of the film print with kind support of HfG Karlsruhe.

The film is a satire on the cult of genius surrounding “young directors” like Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders or Jim Jarmusch. “I” parodies above all the vanities of these directors in their own self-presentation. Bettina Flitner plays the young genius who is questioned and observed at work, Hella von Sinnen can be seen in various roles, as a mother, an aunt, a school principal and as an actress. “I” is full of allusions to films and directors. Many interview passages are taken almost verbatim from a conversation a newspaper had with “cult” director Jim Jarmusch.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.