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German film in which a sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. — Black Francis <jsh0009@jove.acs.unt.edu>. Manuela is a spirited and independent teenager sent to a boarding school when her mother dies.
Géza von Radványi. Director. Franz Höllering. Screenplay. Friedrich Dammann. Screenplay. In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
Mädchen in Uniform - Metacritic. 1932. Passed. Filmchoice. 1 h 28 m. Summary As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance.
It's a thought-provoking film, handled with a strange charm and sensitive touch. Full Review | Nov 18, 2020. E. de S. Melcher Washington Star. There is a sensitiveness about Maedehen In Uniform ...
Sep 20, 2021 · Today is the 90th anniversary of Leontine Sagan’s lesbian classic Mädchen in Uniform! The revolutionary German film premiered in 1931 and remains one of the most strikingly feminist movies to this day. It follows a young girl sent to an all-girls boarding school who develops a romantic attachment to her teacher.
Mädchen in Uniform was directed by Leontine Sagan under the supervision of Carl Froelich in 1931; it was based on the play Yesterday and Today by Christine Winsloe. Its subversive anti-Fascist, anti-patriarchal themes seem astonishing when one realizes that the film was shot in Germany just two years before Hitler's rise to power.
Mädchen in Uniform. Leontine Sagan’s pioneering and internationally acclaimed lesbian love story. Drama 1931 89 mins. Director: Leontine Sagan. Overview Overview. Fräulein von Bernburg is an empathetic teacher at an all-girls boarding school. When new student Manuela starts to fall in love with her kindly tutor, pupil and teacher soon ...
