Ernest Knoll (Manuel de Blas), a successful but misogynistic engineer, awakens from a near-fatal car accident (he is clinically dead, but his brain remains functioning) to find that ex-Nazi surgeon Dr Adolf Berger (Narciso Ibañez Menta) has performed an experimental transplant on him, placing his brain inside the body of a beautiful recently deceased woman (Alexandra Bastedo).
The former Ernest enters society as Leda Schmidt, though he retains his male urges and finds that living as a female in a male-dominated world is fraught with more difficulties and frustrations than he’d ever imagined. He is disgusted by the attention he/she gets from men.
Leda incinerates Adolf and whips his wife to death in the woods, but the violence (and sex) are mostly quite tepid.
Leda/Ernest ultimately devises a plan to extort money from his widow, Mary (Maria Silva), who has collected on a million-dollar life insurance policy, before a surprisingly nasty ending.
This Spanish/Swiss co-production was released initially as Odio mi Cuerpo.
Leda Schmidt
Alexandra Bastedo Ernest Knoll
Manuel de Blas Dr Adolf Berger
Narciso Ibañez Menta Lydia Berger
Gemma Cuervo Mary Knoll
María Silva Mika Rohn
Eva Leon Maurice
Victor Losada Arthur Harker
Juan Amigo Notario Gordon
Eduardo Calvo Herman Schmidt
Luis Ciges Factory Manager
Manuel Zarzo
Director
Leon Klimovsky
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