This low budget German movie from Rosa von Praunheim has something for just about everyone – or, more accurately, everyone with a pretty broad mind.

Combining everything from drag, punk and prostitution to cabaret, fast food and Communism, the movie looks like something you’d get if Andy Warhol and John Waters re-shot The Rocky Horror Picture Show on LSD.

The action focuses on a Berlin boarding house and a burger restaurant, both of which are run by black transsexual Angie Stardust. The diverse group of boarding house tenants – that include ‘erotic trapeze artists’, nymphomaniacs, gay men, drag queens, transsexuals and prostitutes – also happen to work in Angie’s ‘Burger Queen’ restaurant.

There is no comprehensive narrative throughout the movie: it is, instead, a series of expositions of the lives and problems of the different characters. For example, Lila – played by transgender punk rocker Jayne County – gets pregnant by a Communist who promises to make her a big TV star in East Germany.

Angie’s real personal history is revealed in the movie too: assaulted by her father in an attempt to beat the femininity out of her, she became the first black transsexual to perform in New York – although not without experiencing considerable racism.

And as the film moves towards it close, another tenant – due to be deported the next day – sets fire to his room and kills himself. As angels look down and firefighters tackle the blaze, the rest of the cast assemble in the Burger Queen for an upbeat finale that wouldn’t be out of place on a West End stage: