Soldier Monika
The battlefield is gender identity and the swing to the right. Monika Donner is a transgender elite soldier, a poster figure for gender rights, and an author favored by the extreme right. Quickly, she, who used to be a he, becomes a solitary warrior caught between the ideological fronts.
Cast
- Der Soldat Monika
- Monika Donner
- die Ehefrau
- Jasmin Donner
- Die Mutter
- Maria Hofstätter
- Die Erste Ehefrau
- Sarah Zaharanski
- Die Zweite Ehefrau
- Mateja Meded
- El Kapitano
- Michael Thomas
- Der Vater
- Roland Düringer
- Hotel Anny
- Sibylle Rauch
- Die Andere Monika
- Philipp Hochmair
- The Anglo-Saxon Axis of Evil
- Neil Young
- Die Rockband
- Gewalt -
Soldier Monika
Paul Poet
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Austria 2024
- Language
- dt., engl., frz. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 108min
1.85:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Der Soldat Monika
Nominated for:
Granit – Hofer Dokumentarfilmpreis
Director & Crew
Paul Poet
Born in 1971 in Saudi Arabia. Studied Philosophy, Journalism, and Communications at the University of Vienna. Active as a director, media scholar, journalist, and writer.
Filmography
| 2002 | Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2011 | Empire me – der Staat bin ich! | Dokumentarfilm | 2011 |
| 2015 | My talk with Florence | Dokumentarfilm | 2015 |
| 2020 | Attabambi Scheissmichan | Kurzfilm | 2020 |
| 2024 | Der Soldat Monika | Dokumentarfilm | 2024 |
“As a leftist activist, I had been planning for a long time to do a film about the European drift toward the extreme right and why this suddenly seemed legit and sexy to a lot of people of whom
I would never have thought it possible. The majority I investigated proved to be Nazi dorks and complete idiots, though. With Monika Donner I found a singular person with more depth, soul, history, and complexity, whom I could approach as a transperson on friendly eye-level terms, a person with whom I could mirror the political shift on intimate personal terms, but also confront the general bigotry and self-righteous moral shallowness of the 2020s.”
Paul Poet
- Writer
- Paul Poet
- Director of Photography
- Simone Hart
- Editor
- Oliver Neumann
- Set Designer
- Ruth Grau
- Camilla Smolders
- Costume Designer
- Sophie-Marie Frauscher
- Sound
- Joseph Nikolussi
- Sound Designer
- Atanas Tcholakov
- Music Composer
- Patrick Wagner
- Gewalt -
- Producer
- Sabine Moser
- Oliver Neumann
- Oliver Neumann
