In a Year of 13 Moons

In a Year of 13 Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Volker Spengler. The film was made in response to the suicide of Fassbinder's lover at the time, Armin Meier. In a "Top 10" list of his own films, Fassbinder placed In a Year of 13 Moons second, after Beware of a Holy Whore.

Cast

 * Volker Spengler as Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt
 * Ingrid Caven as Rote Zora
 * Gottfried John as Anton Saitz
 * Elisabeth Trissenaar as Irene Weishaupt
 * Eva Mattes as Marie-Ann Weishaupt
 * Günther Kaufmann as J. Smolik, chauffeur
 * Lilo Pempeit as Sister Gudrun (as Liselotte Pempeit)
 * Isolde Barth as Sybille
 * Karl Scheydt as Christoph Hacker
 * Walter Bockmayer as Soul-Frieda
 * Peter Kollek as alcoholic
 * Bob Dorsay as city tramp
 * Gerhard Zwerenz as Burghard Hauser, writer