1931 · drama · lgbtq · coming-of-age
Mädchen in Uniform
Directed by Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich1h 28m1931
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Our read: Mädchen in Uniform (1931) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · lgbtq · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / lgbtq, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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