Peter von Kant
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| Directed by | François Ozon |
| Screenplay by | François Ozon |
| Based on | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Produced by | François Ozon |
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| Cinematography | Manuel Dacosse |
| Edited by | Laure Gardette |
| Music by | Clément Ducol |
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| Distributed by | Diaphana |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | France |
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| Budget | €3.1 million |
Peter von Kant is a 2022 French comedy drama film written and directed by François Ozon. It is a loose adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which he adapted into a film in 1972, but here with the sex of the principal characters changed from female to male. It is Ozon's second cinematic adaptation of a Fassbinder play after Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000).
The film premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival as its opening film on 10 February 2022.