Man Is a Woman

1998 French film

Gilles Taurand
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (screenplay & story)
Joële Van Effenterre (story)

Produced by

Régine Konckier
Jean-Luc Ormières

Starring

Antoine de Caunes
Elsa Zylberstein

CinematographyPierre AïmEdited byMonica ColemanMusic byGiora FeidmanDistributed byPolyGram Film Distribution

Release date

1998 (1998)

Running time

100 minCountryFranceLanguageFrench / Yiddish / EnglishBudget$4.1 millionBox office$3.8 million^[1]

Man Is a Woman (French title: L'homme est une femme comme les autres) is a 1998 French film directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann.

Synopsis

Simon Eskanazy is a thirty-year-old gay musician. Born into a Jewish family, he took great pains to accept his homosexuality, and to get his family (including his mother and his uncle, Salomon) to do the same. The latter, Uncle Salomon is a wealthy banker who offered him a deal: he'll give him 10 million francs and will bequeath his mansion to Simon only if Simon agrees to marry a woman. First reluctant, he met Rosalie Baumann, a Jewish singer known for singing in Yiddish, she is very observant, and her parents live in the United States. Little by little, while getting to know her, Simon falls in love with her.