Mädchen in Uniform
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1h 30m
Directed by Géza von Radványi | 91 mins | 1958
Leaving aside the portrayals of royals that had been her breakthrough, Romy Schneider ventured into more risqué territory with this story of Sapphic desire bubbling up in a Potsdam boarding school—the second silver screen adaptation of Christa Winsloe’s LGBTQ landmark 1930 play. For Schneider’s effervescent Manuela, the kindly teacher Miss von Bernberg (Lilli Palmer) quickly comes to represent much more than just a reprieve from the rigidity of her new environment.
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