A Star Named Sonja

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A Star Named Sonja

2014

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The rise and fall of the biggest star of travesty show in Prague in the nineties. The film tells the story of a man with shocking sincerity and openness in confession of two different personalities, woman and man living in one body.

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Luboš Plášek

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