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Austrian Film Poster (Madchen in Uniform)

c. 1932, Austria
Alternate Title: Girls in Uniform, Maidens in Uniform
Director: Leontine Sagan, Deutsche Filmgemeinschaft GmbH, Germany
Poster design: Atelier König: Emmerich Weninger, Austria
Printer: Waldheim-Eberle AG, Wien
Dimensions:. 98 x 36 inches (250 x 91.7 cm), 2 panels. Backed on Japon paper, framed behind glass, fine

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Inspired by Christa Winsloe's play Gestern und Heute, Maedchen in Uniform is one of the most memorable and moving of the pre-Hitler German talkies. Hertha Thiele plays a new student in an exclusive girls' boarding school. Achingly lonely because she feels deserted by her family, Hertha keeps her distance from the rest of the girls. Persecuted for her solitary stance by principal Emilia Unda, Hertha is drawn to her sympathetic teacher Dorothea Wieck. What starts as a friendship blossoms into a romance. While public revelation of this relationship proves disastrous to both student and teacher, it is ultimately the unforgiving principal Unda who suffers most. Maedchen in Uniform was antiseptically remade in 1958, with some of the frankness but little of the honest eroticism of the original. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide