Mädchen in Uniform
Feature Film, DE 1931, Schwarzweiß, 88 min., dOF
Diagonale 2024
Director: Leontine Sagan
Script: Christa Winsloe, F. D. Andam nach Winsloes Bühnenstück „Gestern und Heute"
Cast: Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda, Ellen Schwannecke, Erika Mann, Hedwig Schlichter
Camera: Reimar Kuntze, Franz Weihmayr
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Music: Hansom Milde-Meißner
Additional Credits: Künstlerische Oberleitung: Carl Froelich
Production: Deutsche Film-Gemeinschaft (Berlin)
After the death of her mother, Manuela is sent to a girl’s boarding school where hunger and discipline reign. All that makes life at the boarding school bearable for her is her rapturous worship of her teacher. When she openly confesses her love for the teacher and the scandal is perfect, Manuela wants to take her own life. An engaging period piece on a subject that was still a social taboo in the 1930s. Rejected by the conservative Ufa, the film was made as an independent production by a film cooperative.