Jean-Gina B. (1984)
This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine while being convinced, from an early age, that he was in fact a woman. Director Jean-Pol Ferbus follows Jean Bella and makes him talk about his life, psychological and spiritual experiences and reveals the true poet who remained undisclosed for most of this person's life. The film ultimately isn't about transexuality but about loneliness one can experience when he/she feels very deeply that she/he belongs to the two sexes and this in a deep, almost religious, fashion, to such an extent that sexuality itself is being erased from one's life. Jean-Gina Bella is a woman in the body of a man who bravely lived a life on the sea, eventually fighting the elements, talking to God when lost on the immense solitary ocean. This testimony is a very touching and poetic one.
Directors: Jean-Pol Ferbus, Pierre De Clercq.
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Jean Bella as Self |
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Béatrice Camurat as Jean-Paul's friend |
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Jean-Pol Ferbus as Self |
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Michel Israël as Receptionist |
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Philippe Laudenbach as |
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Cara Van Wersch as Widow |
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Boris Lehman as apostle |
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Jean-Marie Buchet as apostle |
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Roland Lethem as apostle |
| Sound | Henri Morelle | Sound |
| Camera | Nurith Aviv | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Jean-Pol Ferbus | Director |
| Writing | Jean-Pol Ferbus | Writer |
| Writing | Jean Bella | Writer |
| Production | Willem Thijssen | Producer |
| Sound | Steven Brown | Music |
| Editing | Susana Rossberg | Editor |
| Directing | Pierre De Clercq | Director |
| Production | Jean-Pol Ferbus | Producer |
