Imagine a zany cross between Some Like It Hot and The Guns of Navarone and you have one riotous action comedy. In 1944, with most German men on the front lines, factories of the Fatherland are staffed by women. British intelligence decides to conduct espionage behind enemy lines by getting some of its agents to dress up as women. Enter Eddie Izzard (HBO’s Dress to Kill), playing a British drag performer who’s recruited to turn Matt LeBlanc (Friends) and a few other decidedly masculine soldiers into women. Their task is to invade an Enigma factory outside Berlin, “manned” only by women, and bring back the decoding device that will end the war. Can these parachuting lovelies handle the enemy and high heels? Find out in this delightful picture that features marvelous comedic turns by Edward Fox and Udo Kier, a gay and a straight love story, and frocks that have happily gone out of style. –Outfest

Director

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Stefan Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna in 1961. He studied Theater and History and attended film courses and seminars by such industry figures as Syd Field, Zdenek Mahler and Vilmos Zsigmond. In the first half of the 1980s, he worked in the theater as a director and wrote radio plays for the Austrian broadcaster ORF. From 1987, Ruzowitzky worked as a freelance director and author for television, commercials and music videos. In 1996, he made his feature directorial debut with “Tempo”, which won the Max Ophuels Award in 1997. His second feature, “The Inheritors” (“Die Siebtelbauern”, 1997), was sold to 50 countries and shown at numerous film festivals around the globe, winning many prizes including a Tiger Award in Rotterdam. The Inheritors was also Austria’s entry for the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1999. Since then, he has made the successful thriller “Anatomy” (“Anatomie”, 2000), “All the Queen’s Men” (2001) and “Anatomy 2” (“Anatomie 2”, 2002). In 2008, Ruzowitzky’s… read more