Mädchen in Uniform [Blu-ray]

Director: Leontine Sagan, Leotine Sagan Leontine Sagan

Overview

In this German film, Hertha Thiele plays a new student in an exclusive girls' boarding school. Hertha keeps her distance from the rest of the girls. Persecuted for her solitary stance, Hertha is drawn to her sympathetic teacher. However, what starts as a friendship blossoms into a romance.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/14/2020
UPC:	0738329247676
Original Release:	1931
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kino Classics
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	32,990

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Hertha Thiele	Manuela von Meinhardis
Dorothea Wieck	Erzieherin Fräulein von Bernburg
Emilia Unda	Erzieherin Fräulein von Bernburg
Hedwig Schlichter	Fraulein von Kesten
Ellen Schwannecke	Ilse von Westhagen
Gertrud de Lalsky	Actor
Erika Mann	Actor
Hedy Krilla	Actor

Technical Credits

F.D. Andam

Christa Winsloe

Carl Froelich	Producer
Leontine Sagan	Director,Director
Carl Froehlich	Producer
F.D. Andam	Screenwriter
Christa Winsloe	Screenwriter
Friedrich Pflughaupt	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Maedchen In Uniform is one of those odd movies whose very existence -- and the attributes it displays -- place it almost completely outside of the era and attributes of the era in which it was made; in that regard, it stands alongside such unusual Hollywood movies as Joseph L. Mankiewicz's People Will Talk, Herbert Biberman's Salt Of The Earth, and Abraham Polonsky's Force Of Evil -- except that Maedchen In Uniform was the product of an even more repressive culture than 1950's America, made as it was in early 1930's Germany. And it was attacked in its time, though not for the lesbian-oriented, homo-erotic aspects of its story and visuals, but for being a critique of the educational establishment. It thus became an underground classic, taken to heart by iconoclasts of all stripes and, most especially, by lesbian audiences. Even by the standards of the twenty-first century, the honesty of the movie is startling when one considers its origins. The technical side of the filmmaking may be a little frayed, but the acting and direction have endured in their appeal across many decades, and the movie continues to attract attention as something more than an artifact.