Mädchen in Uniform
Women's Work: Essential Films by Female Filmmakers
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1h 28m
Directed by Leontine Sagan | 89 mins | 1931
Actress-turned-director Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance sets its scene at a boarding school for military officer’s daughters where a new student has begun to develop an unusually passionate attachment to one of her teachers—and then faces the fury of the school’s wicked headmistress. A sophisticated drama of blossoming desire and authoritarian repression.
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